{"id":85312,"date":"2018-04-15T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/objects-of-desire-the-design-delights-of-my-favourite-things\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:04:26","slug":"objects-of-desire-the-design-delights-of-my-favourite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/objects-of-desire-the-design-delights-of-my-favourite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Objects of desire: the design delights of my favourite things"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAn old typewriter, a wooden chair, a worn cuddly toy\u2026 The things we surround ourselves with loom large in our lives. Here, eight people reveal why they love the design of their prized possessionThe Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter This is widely regarded as the greatest typewriter of all time. It\u2019s the best ergonomically; it has a light action on the keyboard, but it still has a rhythm. It has an amazing set of features for a tiny machine. It has a half space insertion so you can delete a five-letter word with Tippex and then type it in again; if it\u2019s one letter longer you can do a half space and squeeze up words. It\u2019s also got much more sophisticated tabulation Continue reading…
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