Olivetti Valentine

Olivetti Valentine
Folletto at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

The portable typewriter in red plastic, meant to be as easy to carry as a book.

Ettore Sottsass and Perry King designed the Valentine as a machine for leisure rather than the office. Sottsass called it an anti-machine.

The advertising showed the machine in artistic settings, and it became a symbol of pop. The Valentine is in many design museums.

Materials: ABS plastic, metal

Manufacture: Made by Olivetti in Italy from 1969.

The red plastic and the case the machine slides into.

Black plastic keys.

The name Valentine on the machine.