Origin Arts & Jewels

You can find Origin Arts & Jewels at C-62 Basant Bahar on Tonk Road, right near Jaipur Hospital. Being so close to the hospital means there’s always people around, even late at night. The shop isn't a huge showroom or anything like that. It’s a decent sized space where we keep the pieces we've worked on. Most of the time, the air conditioner is humming and we’re sitting behind the glass counters. Tonk Road is always noisy, but once you step inside, it gets a bit quieter. We spend a lot of time looking at small details and checking stock. Sometimes the light in the back room flickers, we keep meaning to fix it. We aren't trying to be the most famous place in Jaipur, we just do our work here day after day. The parking out front can be a bit of a nightmare because of the hospital traffic, so we usually park our bikes around the corner. We have some regular people who come in because they live in the Basant Bahar area. It's not a corporate setup with uniforms and scripts. We just talk to people like normal. If someone wants to see something, we show it to them. If not, we just carry on with the inventory. It's a steady life here. We open up early and stay until the sun goes down over the city. It's a lot of sitting and waiting and then suddenly being very busy for a while.