Ettore Sottsass was a 20th-century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours.
Ettore Sottsass and Fernanda Pivano at their home in Milan in 1969
Olivetti Valentine typewriter (1969)
Alessi Nuovo Milano cutlery (1989)
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines.
Olivetti headquarters in Ivrea, Italy
Olivetti M40 typewriter (1930), designed by Camillo Olivetti with Gino Levi Martinoli (Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan)
The Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter, designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1950
Former Olivetti branch in Carlisle, UK