본 연구에서는 작가의 개념과 계획에 의한 주관적 연출로 대부분 이루어지는 식음 테이블 데커레이션에 대한 작가와 관람자 상호 호응의 관계를 형성하기 위한 유도로서 관람자의 선호요인, 즉 선호 디자인, 디자인이미지, 디자인요소 간의 인과관계를 파악하고자 한다. 이를 위한 실증연구로 off-line의 대인 면접에 의한 일대일로 설문 조사하여 필요한 정보를 획득하여, 분석하였으며, 그 결과는 아래와 같다. 식음 테이블 데커레이션의 관람자 선호도에 대한 조사 분석으로는 조화로운, 따뜻한, 여성적인의 디자인 이미지의 유사색 조화가 선호되었다 디자인 선호도와 상관관계가 높은 이미지 형용사는 '조화로운과 조화롭지 않은'으로, '조화로운'의 디자인 요소는 유사 색 조화로 '조화롭지 않은'은 혼합 색 조화로 나타났다 따라서 '색채'가 선호 디자인 요소로서 가장 중요하게 부각되었다.

Today’ culture movement puts great importance on well-being which consists in nature-fulfillment and focuses on healthy, psychological secure living. In addition, floral art design, as an element to stimulate a human emotion, is widely applied as a decoration in the center of an eating and drinking table with regard to consumers’ emotional expectations, today’s trends. Color which helps people recognize visually was considered as the most critical factor for the best design preferable to the public, and orange color was the best among the colors because it stimulate appetite. As the preferable image with regard to colors is considered as a romantic image, it represented that people prefer emotional atmosphere and image based on emotional consumption elements. Cut flower is the most popular among cut paper, cut leaves, cut flower, plants in flower-ports for plant materials in decorating eating and drinking tables, and among them, rose was the most frequently used followed by lisianthus, carnation, hydrangea , and gerbera. Hydrangea and peony are the most frequently used among imported plants, and imported plants corresponded to low frequency preference. Differences followed by various colors, high quality, luxurious and exotic images are the important factors why people prefer imported plants, and in addition, the differences between plant materials in Korea and plant materials imported were colors, followed by rareness, price differences, uniqueness, quality, fitness for creating atmosphere, purchasing difficulties, unique shape, flower shadow, various breeds. European style, Western style, Oriental style are classified in floral art design, and finally, blank beauty, the wonderful, rich designs which consider natural basic principle rather than gloomy space, and the style which expresses the feel of materials and colors differently are preferable in the style and hard, experimental, abstract styles different from curved and stable styles are not preferable. Grouping technique, which makes it easy to create formation and represents a powerful movement of colors, forms, and a feeling of materials visually, was preferable.