With about 2,800 exhibitors sprawled across not only the entire Javits Center but also Piers 90, 92, and 94, the New York International Gift Market can overwhelm. So we visited the fair this week with a mission to root out a sampling of the best home items. Here’s what we found.

Designer Ross Meneuz has created a new line of pillows called Fauna, adorned with retro wildlife images silk-screened in modern colors such as cyan and magenta. Mr. Meneuz culls the animal photographs from old Dutch and Italian encyclopedias he’s found at the Vassar College library. “It’s a way of bringing these lost things back to life,” he said of the images, which he first began printing on T-shirts but later switched to using pillows, to make the forms “more palpable.” Why Vassar’s library, of all places? “It’s in the country, so they don’t check your I.D,” he explained. $40-$90 at Odin (328 E. 11th St., 212-475-0666) and Paul Smith (108 Fifth Ave., 212-627-9770).

In fact, graphic pillows proved to be a popular trend at the fair. Thomas Paul featured a whole wall of them; but the aficionado might like to know I spotted design maven Thomas O’Brien of Aero ordering his pillows from the Hable Construction booth. Thomas Paul pillows are $59-$88 at Loom (115 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, 718-789-0061). Hable Construction pillows are $75 at Hable Construction (230 Elizabeth St., 212-343-8555).

Darrel and Julia Gibbs, British husband-and-wife design team behind the label Sukie, started big – their first American client was Donna Karan. The pair has continued to produce precious travel diaries, journals, and notebooks with cover visuals based on photographs that they take on their various travels. The cute graphics on their new dishtowel and handkerchief line come from Mr. Gibbs’s “Zen doodling”; others images, like trees in autumn, are based on 1960s nature books. Towels and handkerchiefs, $15-$18; books and diaries, $18-$60 (for a special nubuck edition), at Alphabets (2284 Broadway, 212-579-5702, and additional locations), Anthropologie (375 W. Broadway, 212-343-7070, and additional locations), and at www.sukie.co.uk.

One-man design blizzard Karim Rashid has teamed up with the Turkish brand Gaia & Gino to produce a couple of table and glassware lines that are felicitous both in function and (funky) form. Mr. Rashid’s “Happy People” stemware collection ($80-$142) features reversible wine glasses that can accommodate two different types of 463 735 552 747329 1078 433 1090wine. For instance, one end of the Pierre/France glass is meant for white wine, the other, for red – the end not in use becomes the glass’s base. Morphescape ($79-$200) is the name of Mr. Rashid’s new modular tableware collection. Each item’s square base fits among its fellow dishes like a piece in a puzzle. At Barneys New York (660 Madison Ave., 212-826-8900), Bergdorf Goodman (754 Fifth Ave., 212-753-7300), and Fellissimo (10 W. 56th St., 212-247-5656).

The Roost/Confetti collection manages to be both eco-conscious and stylish. The line features pictures frames, boxes, coasters, and vases made of rolled and layered magazine pages. (The pages are coated with resin so that water doesn’t sog them, of course.). $7.50 to $45 at Myxplyzyk (125 Greenwich Ave., 212-989-4300).

Cereal art blurs the lines between high art and commerce with a number of charming – if often useless – objects from big-name artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. But more interesting are pieces from up-and-comers such as Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, whose “sad ghost” salt and pepper shakers ($50) are spooky in a surreal kind of way. Also suspiciously adorable are the Murakamiesque Bunny Rabbit Cookie Jars ($100) by Momoyo Torimitsu. Nerviest of all is the ashtray ($35) from Yoshitomo Nara, which features a grumpy sloe-eyed doll with fuming cigarette in mouth; the words “Too Young To Die” circle its porcelain base. Light up if you dare. Available at Alphabets and Space Untitled (133 Greene St., 212-260-8962) and at www.artbrat.com.

KleinReid continues to produce the most striking porcelain bibelots for the urban sophisticate. Their new StillLife line combines their typically wonky elegance with an understated camp appeal. The Selfish Giant, an enormous round porcelain vase with hand-appliqued flowers, borrows equally from Fragonard, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and a 1950s funeral parlor aesthetic. It couldn’t be more chic (and has the pricetag to match: $6,000; smaller versions cost around $300). “We just wanted to make something pretty that’s totally unique,” said James Klein, who has been crafting fine porcelain with partner David Reid since 1993. Equally striking in the StillLife line is a new candelabra with removable porcelain candles (for when you want to burn a real beeswax number), complete with dangling (porcelain) crystals; it wouldn’t look out of place in a Vincent Price movie ($500). Rounding out the collection of lamps and vases, all in white or black bisque, are simulacra books, handkerchiefs, and even a wax-dripped apple ($60). Flowered vases available at Barneys; all other items at Bergdorf Goodman. For more information, visit www.kleinreid.com.