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VALENTINE TYPEWRITER c.1969

Designed by the late Ettore Sottsass with the British designer Perry King for Italian firm Olivetti, the Valentine typewriter was launched in 1969. Forty years on it is still in demand among collectors, if not consumers - most museums with a design collection own a Valentine typewriter as an example of pop design. It presaged what Jonathan Ive and Apple achieved in the late 1990s with the rainbow-coloured iMacs-to make boring office equipment fit for the world of leisure. 

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