This is the beginning of an ever-growing list of designers who have made—and are making—significant contributions to design in California:

Jerry and Evelyn Ackerman
Ernest Batchelder
Jane Bennison
Don Chadwick
Luther Conover
Charles and Ray Eames
Danny Ho Fong
Miller Fong
Frank Gehry
Taylor Green
Charles and Henry Greene
George James
Charles Hollis Jones
Henry C. Keck
Malcolm Leland
Sam Malouf
George Mason
J Mays
Warren McArthur
Harrison McIntosh
Richard Neutra
RKS Design, Inc
R. M. Schindler
Peter Shire
Elizabeth Paige Smith
LaGardo Tackett
Paul Tuttle
Hendrik van Keppel
KEM Webber
Barbara Willis
Tyrus Yu Wong