For Travel + Leisure. Ivrea, an Italian town purpose-built by the now subsumed typewriter manufacturer Olivetti, was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Italy’s best architects were commissioned to design state-of-the-art factories, canteens, offices; airy palaces of glass curtain walls, flat concrete roofs and glazed brick tile. Now, it is both a cautionary tale and a vision of an abandoned utopia. An eerie spellbound nothingness prevails.