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One example. Colors, sub-models, and production years vary; the machine you find may differ.
Olivetti Valentine
What people say
"designed in 1968 with Perry A. King and Albert Leclerc; Sottsass later called it the Bic Cristal of typewriters"
— Ettore Sottsass
"in the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art"
— MoMA
"a Lettera 32 disguised as a sixties girl"
— Giovanni Giudici
Used by
Cormac McCarthy
occasional secondary machine alongside the Lettera 32 (1970s)
See & hear it for yourself
All sources
External, in their original form. The people who know these machines best — click through to read and watch.
Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Olivetti
- Origin
- Italy
- Years
- 1969–1975
- Form
- Portable
- Mass
- 4 kg
- Shift
- segment