The Uten.Silo wall organizer. (Photographer: Heami Lee for Bloomberg Businessweek)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Plastic was the cultural palette of the 1960s: Designers as diverse as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, and Joe Colombo used it to create classic pieces of furniture that are still being made (and copied) today. Dorothee Becker, an untrained designer and wife of lighting guru Ingo Maurer, invented one of the unlikeliest icons of the era—a wall organizer made from a single piece of molded plastic. With...