Marcello Nizzoli was an Italian artist, architect, industrial and graphic designer. He was the chief designer for Olivetti for many years and was responsible notably for the iconic Lettera 22 portable
The Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter designed by Nizzoli and Giuseppe Beccio won the inaugural Compasso d'Oro award in 1954.
Nizzoli's design for the Mirella sewing machine for V. Necchi Spa won the Compasso d'Oro award in 1957. (Photo by Paolo Monti, 1960)
Olivetti Divisumma 14 calculator (1948)
Olivetti MC 24 calculator (1956)
Fausto Melotti was an Italian sculptor, ceramicist, poet, and theorist.
Marcello Nizzoli
…Viennese Secession style to Novecento Italiano, adapting them to the taste of his cultivated middle-class clientele. Nizzoli had already designed (with Fausto Melotti) mannequins for Baldessari's early Rationalist Craja Café (1930) in Milan when he met Edoardo Persico (1931) who, with Giuseppe Pagano, had begun to…
Fausto Melotti, Si redimono i campi [The fields are liberated], 1943 (variant no. 4, detail of marble, 520cm). Located at the EUR in Rome, Italy.