Article: History in the making: Lever House's new owner prized it so much that he moved his own office there--and brought back the building architect, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, to give the Park Avenue interior some downtown cool.

Aby Rosen is no Donald Trump. Favoring jeans, white T-shirts, and designer sandals, he looks more like a gallery owner than the principal of a huge real-estate developer, RFR Holding. And Rosen's art-world sensibility doesn't stop there. Among the properties that he owns with his partner, principal Michael Fuchs, are two icons of the International Style: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building and, across Park Avenue, Lever House by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Lever House was such a jewel in RFR's crown that Rosen and Fuchs moved their company there. "It's a mecca of modernist design," Rosen says. "Students, art lovers, ...

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