RUSSELL JOHNSON IMPORTS was
created because of a visit to the Sunday Flea Market in San Telmo, one of the
city's historic neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There Russell
Johnson, founder and president, came across a family selling a collection of
beautiful vintage seltzer bottles from the 1930s. Russell not only bought as
many as he could carry, he also bonded with the family and promised to keep in
touch.
Back in the States, he showed the bottles to a few of his interior design
colleagues. They fell in love and immediately bought him out. Soon he was
contacting the family about getting more and, on his next visit, met another
family at the San Telmo Sunday Flea Market, they had vintage rotary phones!
Then came another family with vintage apothecary bottles and, before he knew
it, Russell had created RUSSELL JOHNSON IMPORTS.
It makes perfect sense that our
extraordinary vintage products would come from a place as intoxicating and
sophisticated as Buenos Aires, Argentina.
BUENOS
AIRES is known as the Paris of South America. It is a city abundant with
history, creativity and culture, and, thanks to the fascinating people who live
there, ample amounts of personality. It is this unique combination that gives
Buenos Aires its beauty and vitality which, for us, continues to be a boundless
source of inspirations.
