This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. On Friday, Christie’s will auction Cormac McCarthy’s battered blue ...

Cormac McCarthy purchased a powder blue Olivetti Lettera 32 mechanical typewriter in a Tennessee pawnshop, in 1963, for fifty dollars, and used it for the next five decades, producing an estimated ...

The Italian company’s dedication to design over pure functionalism extended beyond just its products into its brilliant graphics. Designed by Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti’s lipstick-red Valentine ...

The design aesthetic of the world’s most wanted laptops and smartphones is generally as slick as the products themselves. Even as the new Apple store design feels like an ostensible attempt to soften ...

Typewriter; Olivetti portable; Lettera 32 model, serial no. 8205845; blue and black zippered flexible vinyl case; green mechanically operated machine with black keys marked by white characters.