Several weeks ago, we won an Ebay auction for this Olivetti Underwood
Studio 45 typewriter. We've been so preoccupied with real estate goings-on that we haven't ordered a new ribbon for it, but as soon as we do, it will be in the store.
To see if I could get some information about it, I searched my friend Ton's blog
I dream lo-tech and was delighted to find out that it has a bit more of a pedigree than I expected. Seems it was a creation, like the well-known red
Valentine, of famed Italian designer Ettore Sottsass.
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| Our Olivetti Underwood Studio 45 typewriter by Ettore Sottsass |
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| Alternate view of Studio 45 |
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Emblem signifying Olivetti's purchase of controlling interest in Underwood in 1959,
the merger being completed in 1963 |
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| Serial number, indicating this machine was made in 1969. |
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| Print ad of Duke Ellington with Studio 45 |
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| The Sottsass Valentine, realeased on February 14, 1969 |
