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Founded in 1993, China Quanmian Office Products Co., Ltd. is a valentine typewriter manufacturer and designer of office products, school products and restaurant items. Our company has independent design ability and mould center, a complete set of production management system and employs various mature managerial and technicians. In order to improve custom valentine typewriters quality and production efficiency, reduce production cost and strengthen the competitive ability of market, we have constantly introduced advanced equipment, developed new products to meet the demand of domestic and overseas markets. Our company persists on implementing standards of ISO9001 international quality system, and high quality differentiates us from other manufacturers in the same industry.
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Sottsass designed the Valentine typewriter (with Perry A. King) for Olivetti in 1969 to be an "anti-machine machine," for use "anyplace but an office. Undoubtedly one of the great design classics, the Valentine expresses the mood of its time: goodbye to the bulky cast-iron housings of old typewriters, hello to the new mobility of a light, modern, plastic casing made from ABS. The Valentine typewriter is a very collectible portable in spite of the fact that it is relatively of recent vintage. Plastic, enameled metal. 13.5"w x 4.5"d x 15.6"h. Sold with original fitted carrying case. Molded manufacturer's marks with Valentine name on front.
Literature: Ettore Sottsass, Burney, pg. 116. Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Ambasz, pg. 75. Built around the commonest mass-produced mechanism, the works inside a typewriter, it may also seem to be an unpretentious toy."
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Ettore Sottsass, (1917-) designer and ardent design philosopher, worked throughout his career to shake the static ways in which people thought about design and to try to create a body of work outside of what he thought were "hierarchic bureaucratic structures of industry." Although Sottsass was born in Austria, he studied at the Turin Polytechnic and is identified as one of the major forces behind the immense wave of design that began flowing out of Italy after the war. His main interest was in creating objects that challenged the icons of Italian design that he felt functioned in terms of status and money. His work teeters on the very edge of the anti-design movement, constantly questioning and rethinking ideas and processes. He never ceased to imply the importance of design in society, however, stating that, "to me design...is a way of discussing life. It is a way of discussing society, politics, eroticism, food and even design." |
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