Then one day he decided to go fishing, and a simpletwist of fate launched an improbable series of events which catapulted this San Antonio entrepreneur into the presidency of New York's venerable Explorers Club.
"The outside should be modern but I don't think the royal family would go for a highly modern interior, it would have to be traditional, " says the designer who thinks furnishing should be classic with a slight modern twist such as simple mouldings made out of wood.