Carleton Varney

President Donald Trump intends to nominate interior designer Carleton Varney to serve on the National Council on the Arts, according to a White House statement today. Varney owns Dorothy Draper & Co., one of the country’s oldest interior design firms. He has a home in Palm Beach and has written a weekly column for the Palm Beach Daily News for more than 30 years. Varney’s company has offices in New York, West Palm Beach, London and White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.His company is the longtime design firm for The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs and The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan. He also has served as a design consultant to The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum and for state functions at the White House. His professional resume includes restoring and redecorating the West Virginia’s Governor’s Mansion, the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Tokyo and the U.S. Navy Observatory, the official vice president’s residence in Washington D.C.