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Jacqueline Lundquist, wife of Richard Celeste, opens One World 2 U with merchendise from India
Jacqueline Lundquist was mesmerized by India from the start, reveling in its history, its beauty and the warmth of its people. She and her husband, Richard Celeste, now president of Colorado College, spent their honeymoon in India in 1995. They returned in 1997 when Celeste was named U.S. ambassador to India. During their four years there, “I fell in love with all things Indian,” Lundquist said. Celeste’s service in India ended in 2001; a year later, he became CC president. Lundquist has never lost her passion for India, though. Now she’s sharing that love with others by opening One World 2 U, promising “the best of Asia” at wholesale prices. The business, in a warehouse on Elkton Drive in northwest Colorado Springs, will be open to the public just seven weekends a year, beginning Friday through Sunday. Clients, such as designers, will be able to make private appointments. “I don’t want to run a store,” Lundquist said. “I don’t want to hire employees. It’s just as easy to do it this way.” Richard Celeste served as the 9th director of the Peace Corps after his appointment by President Carter. He has also served as Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to India, and President of Colorado College since 2002.
Jacqueline Lundquist, wife of Richard Celeste, opens One World 2 U with merchendise from India
A piece of INDIA
Local business offers authentic goods for limited time
By BILL RADFORD
THE GAZETTE
September 13, 2007 - 6:05AM
Caption: Jacqueline Lundquist, owner of One World 2 U, plans to open her Elkton Drive warehouse to the public seven weekends a year, beginning Friday. She promises “the best of Asia” at wholesale prices. Photo: Mark Reis, The Gazette
Jacqueline Lundquist was mesmerized by India from the start, reveling in its history, its beauty and the warmth of its people.
She and her husband, Richard Celeste, now president of Colorado College, spent their honeymoon in India in 1995. They returned in 1997 when Celeste was named U.S. ambassador to India.
During their four years there, “I fell in love with all things Indian,” Lundquist said.
Celeste’s service in India ended in 2001; a year later, he became CC president. Lundquist has never lost her passion for India, though. Now she’s sharing that love with others by opening One World 2 U, promising “the best of Asia” at wholesale prices.
The business, in a warehouse on Elkton Drive in northwest Colorado Springs, will be open to the public just seven weekends a year, beginning Friday through Sunday. Clients, such as designers, will be able to make private appointments.
“I don’t want to run a store,” Lundquist said. “I don’t want to hire employees. It’s just as easy to do it this way.”
Stuart Fishman, her business partner, runs a similar operation in Steamboat Springs. It’s open just three weekends a year.
That builds anticipation and makes each opening a big event, Fishman said.
“People wait for months and months and months. I can’t go in the grocery store and not have, ‘When are you open?’”
One World 2 U’s merchandise includes furniture, handknotted carpets and other home furnishings made by Indian artisans. Among the unique offerings: camel saddles, which can be used, among other things, as towel racks.
Prices range from $8 for wood-carved hooks to about $2,000 for a large armoire. The camel saddles will sell for about $180.
“It’s really cool stuff, and we price it incredibly cheap,” Fishman said.
They can do that, he said, because with no staff or store space, there’s little overhead.
And there’s no middleman.
“Stuart goes to the source, which is why we can sell it at such reasonable prices,” Lundquist said. “He’s in India every other month buying.”
It’s not Lundquist’s first Indian-themed business. She started her “I’m Sari” line of jewelry while in India and also launched Karma, which introduced the collections of Indian fashion designers to the United States. That venture has ended, but it accomplished what she wanted, Lundquist said. The collections caught the attention of retailer Lord & Taylor, and Indian designers now have a voice in the New York fashion scene, she said.
Karma also raised funds for charities in India. As a similar “business of social responsibility,” One World 2 U will donate 15 percent of sales to local charities, beginning with the Southern Colorado AIDS Project and the Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts.
Lundquist, who returns to India yearly, has filled her home with furniture and art from India and is eager for Springs residents to have the same opportunity.
“That’s what it’s about for me as much as anything. I love people having these things in their homes. It makes me happy.”
CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0272 or bill.radford@gazette.com
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