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Valentine Typewriter, SKU 5082 #846920

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Valentine Typewriter, SKU 5082 #846920
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"><tr><td><em> </em></td></tr><tr> <td width="100%"> Olivetti employed Ettore Sottsass, Jr. since 1957 and in 1969 he designed the Valentine typewriter with Perry A. King for use at home. Rejecting the cool efficient image of Olivetti's earlier portable models, he conceived a typewriter that would visually suggest an alternate context and be appreciated less for its function than for its novel design, of orange-red molded plastic accented by two yellow buttons on the ribbon spools "like the two eyes of a robot" It was made, he said, "for use any place except the office, so as not to remind anyone of monotonous working hours, but rather to keep amateur poets company on quiet Sundays in the country or to provide a highly colored object on a table in a studio apartment. An anti-machine machine, built around the commonest mass-produced mechanism, the works inside any typewriter, it may also seem to be an unpretentious toy".
Pg. 245 Landmarks of 20th century design.
Condition is good the case and carrying case are intact, the typewriter does work and the only thing amiss is the ret plastic bar under the space bar, it is not attached and comes out easily. The case has some scars and scratches and is stamped made in olivetti plant Barcelona, Spain. (12) </td></tr><tr> <td> </td></tr><tr> <td>Reference #: 5082_101</td></tr><tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr><tr><td>Year:Mid 20th Century</td></tr><tr><td>Title:Valentine Typewriter, SKU 5082</td></tr><tr><td>Location:Fort Lauderdale, Florida</td></tr></table>