Show Art for your walls 706oUmU (a t&e tMty wt avant garde artist Kenny Scharf and fabrics by graffiti artist Stephen Sprouse Looking for art? Forget Artists or craftsmen who about gallery hopping and instead hop on over to a home come up with those novel ideas can power success in the furnishings design store marketplace upscale toy store gift shop or Wilsonart manufacturer of even a local Target While galleries and museplastic laminates began workums are certainly not losing ing with artists and other creative types in 1999 primarily artists or viewers retail stores to get beyond traditional increasingly are showing home furnishings that can thinking about how and where double as art — or at least are to use laminates said Alison de Martino marketing comdesigned by artists At trade shows such as The ' munications manager The reason Knoll Inc hired Gift Fair and International to create some new Furniture Fair Sprouse Contemporary ' fabrics was “to attract a (ICFF) in New York and Neocon in Chicago there was younger generation that appre- an abundance of new products dates edgy design" said Suzanne Tick Knoll Textile’s ' and artful objects that dealers' creative director: Sprouse’s and designers could choose from for their work These camouflage velvet in his o trademark coins as included laminate patterns by By The Associated Press Day-Gl- : Hometown Banking Since 1905 INTERNET fo t&e utatt&et cottteA “Artists and craftspeople well as his design of sheer' can make a pretty decent livdrapery fabric based on random TV screen static repreing selling wholesale licenssents a new departure for the ing ideas to manufacturers staid manufacturer known for producing the designs themselves or having them made discreet and subdued modelsewhere where labor and ernism materials are cheaper” said There’s obviously someMary S trope manager of the thing in it for companies seeksection Of the New York Gift ' buzz for the of celebrity ing Fair that exhibits the wares of new products But it used to handcraft producers be that artists fine craftsmen and high-en- d who Larry Mangel founded ' designers Bozart (as in beaux art) in went commercial were 1996 to market quirky and thought to be selling out ' “The idea prevalent at least witty home accessories and toys designed by people whose through the 1980s that artists should not be designing for usual venues are galleries and museums “We might make production is totally gone” said Alan Steel executive vice 10000 to 20000 units in a year of a popular product we president of George Little keep prices reasonable pay Management which runs the artist a generous royalty ICFF and the Gift Show and it gets their name out” Economics is one explana- tion for the change in attitude Mangel said A former gallery Lewiston State Bank BANK ALL DAT Z3 E VOICE ' director he started the company when the art market took a downturn “I had the idea of reaching a different audience that doesn’t patronize expen-- j sive art galleries” he added Some of Bozart ’s more successful products introduced via ICFF and the Gift Fair appeal to widely different consumers A dollhouse designed by conceptual artist Laurie Simmons and architect Peter Wheelwright is popular as a toy but also won an award from Art Forum magazine and was on the cover the Museum of Modem Art catalog Called toe Kaleidoscope House it costsabout $325 complete with modem furniture and art and could turn up in a child’s playroom or even in the living room of a modem art lover : ' See ART on page 12 House Doctors oneylCjQs i ATM Lewiston State Bank of Idaho 0) We'll do this While You do this IIXXXXX Don't miss an this Fall We've got you covered (435)787-821- 2190 North Main 2 wwwhousedoctorscvcom North Logan Ut 84341 435-750-67- 00 227 South State Suite B Preston ID 83263 17 East Center Lewiston Ut 84320 435-258-24- 56 J (inside Stokes Thriftway) (208)852-242- 0 Fullylnsured and Bonded Work Guaranteed HOUSE DOCTOR End it independently oZed end Operate ( lmc Houe Doctor of Cache Vlley FAX435)787-824- 9 (435)787-821- 2 Owned k Operated by S&P Wood Enterprises Inc o E- D o —1 2 E xa) a £ r a a £ |