AN OLIVETTI 'SPAZIO' PAINTED METAL OFFICE DESK, designed by the group BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto N. Rogers), circa 1956, the rectangular black painted metal top with cantilevered corners, supported by a metalical structure holding a filing cabinet on the left side, the plastic cabinet door stamped 'OLIVETTI ARREDAMENTI METALUCI'--29 in. (73.7 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 31 1/2 in. (80 cm.) deep

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AN OLIVETTI 'SPAZIO' PAINTED METAL OFFICE DESK, designed by the group BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto N. Rogers), circa 1956, the rectangular black painted metal top with cantilevered corners, supported by a metalical structure holding a filing cabinet on the left side, the plastic cabinet door stamped 'OLIVETTI ARREDAMENTI METALUCI'--29 in. (73.7 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 31 1/2 in. (80 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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