JUPITER, Fla. This is what you get when you hire Venus Williams as your interior decorator: an enthusiastic designer who has traveled the world, drawing inspiration from Moscow to Beijing, but never quite had time to complete formal training; a team of professionals working with her; and a place on a client list that includes celebrities and professional athletes.

And, of course, you get Venus Williams.

Shes one of the great tennis players of all time: seven Grand Slam singles titles, an Olympic gold medal, a woman who changed the face of modern tennis. Her father gave her a racket when she was 4 years old and told her she was going to become the best player in the world.

Most people decide what they want to do later in life, and some people know really early, she says. For me, what I was doing was already decided. Thankfully, I liked it. But that was her fathers dream, not hers. This was like when you get to make your own choice about what you love.

And Williams loves, loves, loves designing. She talks about space planning, construction, lighting and fabric swatches like nobodys business. In fact, it is a business: For more than a decade, she has quietly run an interior design firm in her adopted home of Florida, both capitalizing on and overcoming her famous name.

She recently unveiled her latest work in the District of Columbia, the renovated Southeast Tennis and Learning Center, an after-school tennis, arts and academic program created for children. Other people at the gala saw her as the tennis legend; she was there as the person responsible for the look and feel of the space.

As a designer, you design and its beautiful and people feel great when they walk in but how have you changed the world? she asks. For us, this sort of project means so much to us because its going to impact so many lives.

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Williams had been playing tennis for 14 years and was two years away from her first Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles in 2000 when a letter arrived on her doorstep when she was 17 or 18. She cant remember if it was addressed to her or was a random solicitation, but it invited her to study art and design at a technical school in Tampa, Florida.

Oh, I want to go to design school! she remembers telling her mom. She loved being creative: She grew up sewing and still has the homemade skirts she made for her first professional tournament at age 14.

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A millionaire hotel magnate and his yoga-instructor wife say an interior designer-to-the-stars is holding their $2.1 million worth of custom furnishings hostage including a $37,000 couch.

Cendant Corporation executive Henry Silverman, 73, and his second wife Karen Hader, 43, hired designer Richard Mishaan in October 2013 to redecorate their homes in Manhattan, the Hamptons and the Bahamas.

But when Silverman discovered in September that Mishaan had allegedly taken $246,909 in payments on canceled items, he fired the decorator, according to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday.

Mishaan whos worked with socialites Gigi Mortimer and Allison Rockefeller promptly locked away 160 items in a New Jersey warehouse and stowed another 140 with a Staten Island furniture maker, the suit says.

The designer told Silverman he would only hand over the luxe furnishings including a $37,000 bespoke couch made by Capri Upholstery, a pair of $20,000 Holly Hunt roman ring pendant light fixtures and a $9,000 Ligne Roset armchair if Silverman promised not to sue him.

But the exec, whose company controls the Days Inn, Howard Johnson and Ramada hotel chains, scoffed at the deal and is suing Mishaan and Staten Island-based Capri to get his stuff.

A rep for Capri said he delivered the upholstered pieces to the designer weeks ago.

Mishaan told The Post, Theres nothing really wrong here. Its just a matter of bullying, adding that he only billed for legitimate work.

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Lisa Armstrong looks to philanthropist and garden designer Bunny Mellon and interior designer Rose Uniacke to find out what it really means to have impeccable taste

BY Lisa Armstrong | 14 November 2014

The only flashy act Bunny Mellon ever committed was posthumously, four days ago, when part of her estate sold at Sotheby's in New York for $158. 7 million. Note I said part. The two Rothkos have gone, but the remaining lots, consisting of more jewellery, paintings and furniture, will auction on the November 20 and 21. Mrs Mellon, who died in March aged 103, owned rather a lot of "stuff" - some 5,000 items, according to Elaine Whitmore, vice chairman, head of single owner sales at Sotheby's New York, whose absorbing task it was last summer to catalogue them all.

It's not merely dazzling amounts of fancy "stuff" that entices discerning collectors out on a Monday night in November. Bunny, or Rachel Lowe Lambert as she was christened - she was the granddaughter of Jordan Lambert, the inventor of Listerine - "had an impeccable eye for everything", according to Whitmore. Her best friend was Hubert de Givenchy, a man not known for merciful judgments when it came to matters of style. Her protg was Jacqueline Kennedy, who once lamented to Bunny: "I love your house, but hate mine. Can you help me?"

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Bunny could and did. Jackie's redecoration of the White House (and overhaul of the Rose Garden there) was widely perceived to be a turning point for sceptical Americans, who had hitherto suspected the First Lady was little more than a particularly fine clothes horse.

The Bunny Mellons of this world - women who could oversee an exquisite garden with the same adroitness as they could assemble a wardrobe of flawless clothes - were of a generation that, as Whitmore says, valued "elegance and discretion".

Monumentally privileged, for valid social reasons, the grand hostesses of Mellon's time were superseded by other role models, some of whom have turned out to be disappointingly vacuous. "Muses" often professional or semi-professional models and mainly notable for their flare with "statement" clothes and willingness to turn up at shop openings, were, for a long time, the replacement to the grand hostess.

Mrs. Mellon's main residence at Oak Spring Farms, Upperville, Virginia

We rarely saw a muse's home, let alone her garden. Her taste in food? The implication often is that she probably had better things to do than eat. Their chief occupation was to promote the products of whichever designer hired them. No wonder so many muses prefer not to be described as such - their circumscribed role of wafting around looking good but seeming remote is not only increasingly at odds with the busy-ness to which we must all ascribe nowadays, but looks threadbare even compared with the achievements of the grand hostesses. Bunny for instance, in addition to running homes in Virginia, New York, Paris, Nantucket, Antigua was a serious horticulturist and fund-raiser. "This wasn't a woman who just sat around," says Whitmore. "She was very organised and an energetic philanthropist. If she'd been born 50 years later she'd be the CEO of a major company."

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