John H. Johnson, founder of Ebony and Jet magazines, created his empire against all odds. “He was a genius on every level,” says Johnson’s daughter, Linda Johnson Rice
The Johnson Publishing Company cafeteria. Photo: Photograph by Alexandre Georges from Arthur Elrod by Adele Cygelman, reprinted by permission of Gibbs Smith. This article was originally published in April 2019, when the Museum of Food and Drink announced their intention of reassembling Ebony’s test kitchen.
That same sensibility of glamour and pride and pizzazz could be seen throughout the Johnson Publishing Company offices. In the early 1970s, Johnson commissioned architect John W. Moutoussamy — who studied with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of technology — to build the company offices in Chicago.
In a 1972 Architectural Digest feature, Eunice said that she told Raiser and Elrod that she wanted the apartment “to complement our two complexions in tones of browns and beige. We felt this type of setting would be comfortable and flattering.” To that end, the apartment featured rich walnut travertine walls in the living room, a custom zebrawood coffee table, herringbone walnut parquet floors and earth-toned Edward Fields carpets, as well as a sprinkling of zebra- and leopard-print fabrics.
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