Between 1963 and 1967, Warren Platner collaborated with the Knoll Design Development Group, and the result was perhaps Platner's most widely admired furniture.

Mario Bellini was born in Milan in 1935 and graduated with a degree in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1959. In charge of design at La Rinascente (1961-63), he set up a studio of architecture and design in 1963 which is now called Mario Bellini Associates. He has worked for various companies, especially in the field of electronics, and has been in charge of Olivetti design since 1963.

Mario Bellini's "Area 50" lamp features a whimsical flower-like form that softly and subtly diffuses light from a naked bulb.

Brice Marden was born in 1938 in Bronxville, New York, and grew up in the nearby town of Briarcliff Manor. Marden attended Florida Southern College, then Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, where he earned his bachelor of fine arts degree in 1961, and finally Yale University, where he earned a master of fine arts degree in 1963.

Sol LeWitt, a seminal figure in the development of conceptualism in the 1960s, consistently created work that explores the very meaning and underlying structure of art. His work is based on elaborations of elementary geometric systems and mathematical calculations.

Louise Bourgeois's powerful, sensuous sculptures out of wood, marble, latex, or glass translate deeply personal feelings into eloquent universal statements.

Itara are highly conventionalized wooden images representing a family’s most prominent founding ancestors.

Eero Aarnio is one of the architects and designers responsible for firmly establishing Finland in the international design market of the 1960s. He was educated at the Taideteollisuuskeskuskoulu (School of Industrial Design) in Helsinki from 1954 to 1957.