{"id":848409,"date":"2026-09-15T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:12:24","slug":"venus-williamss-new-crate-barrel-collection-was-inspired-by-tennis-and-milanese-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848409\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams\u2019s New Crate &#038; Barrel Collection Was Inspired by Tennis and Milanese Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of her decades-long career, the tennis icon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/venus-williams-profile-may-2026\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Venus Williams<\/a> has traveled the globe, staying in some of the best hotels in the world\u2014and she\u2019s been taking notes.<\/p>\n<p>You may know her as a legendary athlete, but Williams is also an avid interior designer with her own design practice, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/vstarr.com\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/vstarr.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/vstarr.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">V Starr Interiors<\/a>, which she founded in 2002. \u201cI have a huge appreciation for spaces,\u201d Williams tells Vogue. \u201cI actually get quite offended when I think a space is not right,\u201d she adds, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, fans can have a piece of Williams\u2019s interior design vision in their own homes, courtesy of her new furniture and decor collection with Crate &amp; Barrel and Crate &amp; Kids, which launches tomorrow. The wide-ranging line features a mix of mid-century modern and eclectic pieces inspired by a design trip she took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/tag\/city\/milan\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milan<\/a> with Sebastian Brauer, the head of product design for Crate &amp; Barrel and Crate &amp; Kids\u2014and, fittingly, tennis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Venus Williams Adult Person Racket Sport Tennis Tennis Racket and Fashion\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CB_SP26_GSK_10_746_Vert_044.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Courtesy of Crate &amp; Barrel<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Window Couch Furniture Candle Home Decor Rug Chair and Table\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/CB_SP26_GS_02_746_Hor_068.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Courtesy of Crate &amp; Barrel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of her decades-long career, the tennis icon Venus Williams has traveled the globe, staying in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[30770,56001,99,428],"class_list":["post-848409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-celebrity-homes","tag-furniture","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}