Paul Mayén (May 31, 1916 – November 3, 2000) was a Spanish architect and industrial designer known for his work at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
He graduated from Cooper Union in New York City with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and from Columbia University with a master's degree during World War II.
[1] His lamps, tables, and other furniture are featured in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City,[2] and was the founder of Habitat, Intrex and Architectural Supplements, Inc.[3] Mayén's partner, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., inherited the 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater house, over Bear Run, in Stewart Township, Pennsylvania, after his father's death in 1955, continuing to use and share it as a mountain retreat until 1963.
[4] Kaufmann entrusted the Wright structures and several hundred acres of the surrounding pristine Laurel Highlands lands in the Allegheny Mountains to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy as an architectural house museum and conservation open space preserve, in memory of his parents.
[1] In 1975, Mayén built a country house for himself and Kaufmann in Garrison, New York, on the east side of the Hudson River.