CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Paul Mayén (1918-2000) was a Spanish-born architect, industrial designer and the founder of Habitat, Intrex and Architectural Supplements, Inc. In the early 1950s, Mayén met Edgar Kaufmann Jr., whose family owned Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Fallingwater house in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Mayén and Kaufmann would remain life partners and upon Edgar’s inheritance of the property, the couple would regularly spend weekends there until it was donated to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963. Mayén designed the visitor’s center at Fallingwater, and many of his designs can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.