Pei tours the Mesa Lab Library, 1967

Pei tours the Mesa Lab Library, 1967. Photo from the Communications Image Collection. 

In addition to designing a laboratory that is now considered to be a modernist masterpiece, Pei also played an important role in ensuring that the interior was stocked with functional, beautiful, modernist furniture. The interior was a reflection of his influences, contemporaries, and his vision for a lab that was functional but beautiful in its grandeur and simplicity.