Eirik Johnson (1960-2019)

Born in Chicago, Eirik was 12 when we moved to Madrid. He liked to show off that he could carry the biggest rocks. In the school year 1972-1973 he played football for the Moriarty Junior High School team, for the first half of the year as a 7th grader, the second half 8th. He finished …

Mel Johnson

(1934-2018) Mel grew up in Chicago. While in high school he was apprenticed to Alphonso Iannelli in Park Ridge, who had worked with Frank Lloyd Wright during his time in Chicago. He worked with Richard Rush in his studio creating models. Mel attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he sat next …