Valentine | glicée print
“Dear Valentine, this is to tell you that you are my friend as well as my Valentine, and that I intend to write you lots of letters,” says the user guide of the familiar red typewriter.
This purposefully heartwarming greeting sets the tone for Ettore Sottsass' typewriter. The blood-red Valentine was a fun, light-hearted and smooth-operating symbol of the 1960s Pop era, and its use of bright, playful casing for a piece of traditional office equipment was arguably a precursor to Apple’s 1998 Bondi Blue iMac. "When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism,” said Sottsass. “It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting."
What is giclée?
Giclée printing is a digital printing process using an inkjet printer to produce a high-quality art print. All our giclée prints are created on a 12 ink professional ink-jet printer, with the highest print settings, using archival paper to produce a vivid, high fidelity product.
/// 297 x 420 mm (A3)
/// 300 x 400 mm
/// 420 x 594 mm (A2)
/// 500 x 700 mm
/// 594 x 840 mm (A1)
/// 610 x 910 mm
Matt photo rag soft cotton archival 308gsm
100% cotton heavyweight archival fine art paper. High white shade assures saturated colours pop when printed. The archival paper ensures the longevity of the colours.
Prints are rolled in protective tissue paper sleeve which is then placed in a rigid postal tube.
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*Colour disclaimer. We do our best to accurately reproduce the colours from the original image. However, there may be variations in the colours you see on screen, depending on your monitor settings/colour profile.