Tag: Olivetti

• Sottsass, Olivetti, and the continuing lure of the Typewriter

  17 July 2013

  object studies, thinking about the sculptural

  Apple, Art Institute of Chicago, Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti, vintage typewriters

  The other day, while mapping out an upcoming museum visit for the class I am teaching this summer, I found myself wandering through the design and architecture galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago. I have been thinking a lot lately about the often tenuous line that separates a designed object and a sculptural thing.…