Olivetti was established as an office equipment company in the 1930s by Adriano Olivetti. Olivetti enriched his technical design teams with graphic designers, architects, writers, artists and advertisers, and commissioned many well known architects of the time to design offices, factories and showrooms, the most beautiful being Carlo Scarpa’s showroom in Venice’s St Mark’s Square, which has recently been restored by Italy’s National Trust, FAI. While recently in Venice I went to have a look..