Lettera 22 Portable typewriter

The "La Rinascente Compasso d'Oro 1954" Award, which has been given to the Lettera 22 portable typewriter, can be considered as being symbolically extended to include the exceptional merits of Olivetti’s entire range of activities. This is because on a global scale they represent one of the highest examples of stylistic coherence in terms of a complete manufacturing process and all the accompanying aspects, from graphics and advertising to the architecture of the company’s shops, factories, houses and ancillary services. Olivetti’s merit and example is its constant recourse to the collaboration of artists of undoubted value in satisfying the requirements of aesthetic control both of its products and all its resulting manifestations