Interwar Italy 1922–44

Advertising sheet for Isotta Fraschini autocarri. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. The whole page is printed in one blue,

Advertising sheet for Magnesia S. Pellegrino. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. Three grinning faces crowd the top of the

Advertising sheet for the Manifatture Cotoniere Meridionali. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. Photographs of spinning frames pour diagonally down

Advertising sheet for San Giorgio, Genova-Sestri. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. Two letters big enough to hang machinery on

Advertising sheet for Fiat — Aviazione. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. One radial engine, drawn cylinder by cylinder, fills

Advertising sheet for Savoia-Marchetti. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. The company name arcs overhead like a flight path, a

Advertising sheet for Odero-Terni-Orlando. Scan from the Stefano Vigolo collection. A classical statue lifts an arm over a sea of

A photomontage for the aeronautical branch of Breda: four aircraft climbing out of a wedge of light, and under them a line of the same machines drawn up in front of the sheds they were built in.

An adding machine sold as a female colleague who never makes a mistake. The Totalia was the Swedish Addo X, built under licence in Milan by Lagomarsino, whose office was at Piazza Duomo 21.