Lettera 22

Entwurf: 1950

Design /Draft Marcello Nizzoli IT, 1895-1969

Manufacturer Olivetti S.p.A, Ivrea, IT gegründet 1908

MediumMetall, lackiert. Tastatur Kunststoff

DimensionsH×B×T: ca. 27 × 37 × 8 cm

Description“Considered Nizzoli’s masterpiece by many observers, technically innovative and of impeccable design, the Lettera 22 is an organic, agile, carefree typewriter. The poet Franco Fortini created a slogan for the piece: ‘Light as a syllable, complete as a phrase.‘ Many have used it and loved it. An emblem of the Italian industrial renaissance.“
Bruno Monguzzi

Object number1988-0363

DepartmentDesignsammlung

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Credit LineZürcher Hochschule der Künste / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Designsammlung