Lot 130
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AN OLIVETTI 'SPAZIO' PAINTED METAL OFFICE DESK, designed by the group BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgioso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto N. Rogers), circa 1956, the rectangular top covered with anthracite plastic and cantilevered corners, supported by a black painted structure holding a filing cabinet on the side, the plastic cabinet door stamped 'OLIVETTI ARREDAMENTI METALUCI'--30 1/4 in. (77 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 31 3/4 in. (80.6 cm.) deep

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AN OLIVETTI 'SPAZIO' PAINTED METAL OFFICE DESK, designed by the group BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgioso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto N. Rogers), circa 1956, the rectangular top covered with anthracite plastic and cantilevered corners, supported by a black painted structure holding a filing cabinet on the side, the plastic cabinet door stamped 'OLIVETTI ARREDAMENTI METALUCI'--30 1/4 in. (77 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 31 3/4 in. (80.6 cm.) deep

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cf. Andrea Branzi, et al., Il Design italiano degli anni '50, Milano: IGIS, 1981, p. 118, for an illustration of a similar model

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