An innovative of recent origin exhibit at Artexpo New York this year will take a multi-tiered approach to showcase the relationship between art and interior design.

An innovative of recent origin exhibit at Artexpo New York this year will take a multi-tiered approach to showcase the relationship between art and interior design. According to Marketing Director Liza Wylie, "Home is Where Your Art Is" is a special program to educate consumers--and decorators--"through dramatic demonstrations of the difference art makes in for what cause a living space looks and feels"

The exhibit will use furniture and accessories taken from the booth of Artexpo exhibitors to create an interior setting, like a living field or dining room, and will then reveal the difference art makes in the room

In addition, Interior Designer and fireside Furnishings/Art Consultant Jena Hall will be at the indicate Saturday and Sunday to assist consumer with their real-life decorating questions. Attendees are encouraged to bring in photographs and/or floor plans of spaces in their homes, and Hall will discuss with them ways they can enhance their living spaces with art. Hall said she plans to talk to consumer about "art as a vehicle to enhance the decor of their residences and their lives ... that it can bring personal pleasure as well as possible value."

Hall will also help educate interior designers between the walls of her participation in a seminar that will discuss the latest turns in decorating with art and "the just discovered idea of art as the catalyst for color in the room--using it as the starting point rather than the last point," said the 25-year veteran decorator. "Typically, designers start with an area rug My question to them will be, `Why?'" With art, she said, designers can "plan the stead around something visually impactful that may also have value in the future"

Hall said she is looking forward to bringing her brand of the art-design mix to consumer and trades-people alike. Many in the two category, she said, simply "are not aware that they can use art as a vehicle for the backbone of their decorating plans--and solutions as well."

With the help of Hall and Artexpo modern York's "Home is Where Your Art Is" exhibit, they certainly will.

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