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Olivetti Lettera 22
What people say
"winner of Italy's premier industrial-design award, 1954"
— Compasso d'Oro
"named the best-designed product of the previous 100 years, 1959"
— Illinois Institute of Technology
"designed in 1949–50; later succeeded by the Lettera 32 in 1963"
— Marcello Nizzoli
Used by
Indro Montanelli
decades of journalism for Corriere della Sera (1950s–1970s)
Leonard Cohen
early poems and songs (1960s)
See & hear it for yourself
All sources
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Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Olivetti
- Origin
- Italy
- Years
- 1950–1963
- Form
- Portable
- Mass
- 3.7 kg
- Shift
- segment