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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 …

Kiera Quinn

Kiera is the first of the Johnson clan to grow up in Madrid. She spent a lot of her youth in the Engine House Theatre. As a baby she sat happily in her crib while her mother, Kirsten Johnson rehearsed the role of Lucy for Dracula, with the blood of children running down her white …

Kirsten Johnson

Kirsten started Christmas City in order to hang-out with her parents, Mel and Diana, while she plays with her dolls. By “playing” she means fixing them up and dressing them. She prefers dolls that need TLC, and feels sorry for the dolls nobody ever took out of the box! She loves designing and making one-of-a-kind …

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 …

Diana Johnson

Diana was born in Wyoming in 1935 to a sheep ranching family (the Johnsons). She likes to say that her art teacher in high school practically packed her bags for her to go to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her first class, the teacher sat the students alphabetically (yes, at an …