When designing his home, Eron Johnson has the enviable option of choosing from roughly 3,000 works of art and objects at his store, Eron Johnson Antiques. A native of Wheat Ridge, Johnson began buying and selling antiques at age 15. Over the past half-century, he accumulated more and more and more to amass the extraordinary array stockpiled at his enchanting store at 377 S. Lipan Street in Denver.
Tucked into an industrial area, the red brick building with a Kelly-green roof and wood trim houses Johnson’s singularly styled home rich with eclectic maximalism. The majority of the building’s interior serves as Johnson’s showroom of assemblages he creates with his refined taste and age-old items among his venerable merchandise. The structure is itself antique with architectural charms of yesteryear.
“The building was the Duffy Crane Company, and it was full of heavy machinery, giant cranes, and this was the welding shop,” Johnson said of the enormous space now chock-full of antique furnishings and curious curios. “The building shows up on records as built in 1911, but it could be before that 10 or 15 years.”…