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Photo credit: Lee Bey

WBEZ architecture writer Lee Bey took readers on a tour of the former Johnson Publishing Building, which used to be home to Ebony and Jet magazines. “Behind pioneering black architect John Moutoussamy’s four walls were offices designed with an exuberant, high-style and fearless mix of a color, texture, art, contemporary furnishings and pattern,” Bey writes. “Created by interior designers William Raiser/Arthur Elrod, the offices embodied an afrocentric modernism that was well-turned, avant garde and quite hip — a perfect match for publisher John H. Johnson’s groundbreaking magazines.”