A beautiful statue of a fairy made of China clay caught the attention of a four-year-old. Her mother loved it, too, and soon they took it home.

An exclusive range of art pieces, branded and imported carpets, draperies, bedcovers, blankets, furniture and crockery and even a vast range of indigenous interior decorative pieces are fast finding their way to the capital’s market and people here are waking up to new items of interior decoration.

Murari Agarwal, owner of Avaran at Rospa Towers on Ranchi Main Road, has been dealing in such goods. “One has to constantly innovate and differentiate his products from those available in the market,” says Agarwal, who imports exclusive pieces from Spain, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, China, Belgium, France and the US.

In fact, Agarwal is fast switching over from the mundane furnishings that he has been dealing with since the past many years when he had opened shop in Upper Bazaar. Spanish blankets and bedcovers, Belgian carpets have already replaced the ones from Bhadohi.

“We are catering to the demands of the high income and middle income groups because they are brand conscious,” said Agarwal.

Another shop dealing in interior decorations is Craft Creation, a unit of Chhotanagpur Craft Development Society (CCDS), an NGO. Located in Sainik Bazaar on Ranchi Main Road since 1994, the shop boasts of rich, vivid, and vibrant handicrafts by the tribals.

Items from the Delhi International Market, Khunti, Kokar, Hazaribagh and neighbouring cities of Jharkhand also make their way here.

The shop has five sections mainly woodcraft, dokra, jute, woollen artistic panja dhurrie, terracotta craft and tribal textiles — all unique in their respective designs.

Trained artisans are employed to make wooden items that cost between Rs 100 and Rs 10,000. Wood, when carved and polished, finds a distinctive place in tribal culture.

“Tribals have a unique technique for scraping wood and carving decorative items from them. The craftsmanship of the people of this region is renowned world over and many products dominate the ancient sub-continental market,” says B. Chaudhury, the owner of the shop.

Gulfam Kashmir Handicrafts located near Capitol Hill on Ranchi Main Road has been a one-stop shop since close to a decade. Catering to the needs of the middle-income group, they usually house affordable goods and their sales are also on a rise.

Every year the shop registers a growth of 15 to 20 per cent. And the reason behind this is the variety available. “We try to stock all items including those of everyday use. People will no longer have to visit Kashmir, Jaipur, Saharanpur and Benaras to buy handicraft items as we have a sufficient stock round the year,” says shop owner Syed Imtiyaz Ahmad.

The shop has a huge collection of items from Kashmir like paper-mâché ranging from wooden flower vases, letter racks, bells, jewellery boxes, table-lamps, shawls, cushion cover to gabba (wall hanging).

“Furniture is brought from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh and leather goods such as toys, bags, statues in various shapes and coasters,” he adds. Goods here range between Rs 200 and Rs 15,000.

Now, all can decorate their homes with the best of art designs from the west and craft items from the east, all easily available at a store near you!