Olivetti lettera 22 typewriter

The olivetti lettera 22 is a portable mechanical typewriter designed by marcello nizzoli in 1949 or, according to the company's current owner, telecom italia, 1950. This typewriter was very popular in italy, and it still has a lot of fans. He was awarded the compasso d'oro prize in 1954. In 1959, the illinois institute of technology selected lettera 22 as the best design product of the past 100 years. The typewriter is about 27x37x8 cm in size (with the transport return lever adding about 1/2 centimeters more height), making it quite portable at least for time standards, although its weight of 3.7 kg (8.2 pounds) may limit portability somewhat. Typewriter very neat and quite light compared to most other laptops. Easy to travel with. Ideal for the nostalgic writer or to accentuate your home or office. Where well it will make a very nice vintage decoration object for loft/trendy apartment. The keyboard uses qwerty, azerty and various other layouts. In addition to the keystrokes, the keyboard includes a space bar, two maj keys, a capital lock, a backspace key, a margin release key, a paragraph indentation key, and an undefined set of tabs/touch.