A visit to Downtown’s newest furniture store, Red Pony, is like a glimpse of India under Colonial rule.
The store at 202 Fifth St. is filled with antiques from India, primarily made between about 1880 and 1920. The pieces represent the culture, spiritual beliefs and subjugation of that vast nation by Colonial Europe.
“Really, the purpose of the shop is to show people that there’s beauty in India,” said Red Pony co-owner Kate Cole Buffington. “It’s not all poverty.”
She and her silent partner in Red Pony – her fiancé, David Mitchell – are both well-acquainted with India. He lived there for three years in the 1970s. And, since the couple met last May 13, they have bought a home on India’s East Coast in the city of Pondicherry. They spend two months a year there. (more…)
