Posted on 07/30/2010 7:33:17 AM PDT by Daffynition
In reading about the lives of history’s great men, one thing I’ve noticed is that many of them had a place they could go to be alone with their thoughts. Some of these men had a study where they would retreat to think, read, and write. Others had a garage or workshop where they would tinker and experiment. But what all these rooms had in common was their sheer manliness. They were man spaces, places a man could call his own.
Below we give you a look inside the man rooms of 14 famous men from history. Within these rooms they formulated ideas that would change the world, wrote books that remain classics, and revitalized the dynamic manliness that drove their success. While we all can’t have a Carnegie-esque study, perhaps you’ll find inspiration from these manly spaces to spruce up your own room or simply the push to find a place where you can get away from it all and in tune with your manliness.
The room where Papa wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and Death in the Afternoon. Ernest Hemingway lived in this house in Key West, Florida for more than 10 years. Needing a place where he could drink a glass of scotch, smoke a cigar, and write about men being men, Hemingway turned the old carriage house on the property into his personal writing studio. The main features in the room are the Cuban cigar-maker’s chair and his Royal typewriter. Throughout the room, Hemingway placed mementos he collected from his manly adventures in Africa and Cuba.
(Excerpt) Read more at artofmanliness.com ...
Yes ... I hotlinked that image ...lol.
I couldn’t seem to find the chair you mentioned ...it’s gotta be *out-there* somewhere. Nor do I recall seeing it from the tour a few summers back. ;)
Of course, it's a bit cleaner than usual, on account of the pic being taken. Among my friends, there is some dispute as to whether that is a cat lying on the table and not a rare black chupacabra, but I assure you it is feline. Just a real big one.
I guess that you guys would love my place, I won’t describe the obvious rooms with the guns, swords and spears, but I keep a jackhammer in my bedroom and a pipe threading stand and beer making equipment in my bathroom.
We call the man room in our house the “Ball Room”.
Are you married? If not, I volunteer. LOVE your taste in decorating.
Great photo; thanks for posting.
Looks like someone took seriously to BARs and .50 BMG.
As in “I have more guns than I need, but fewer guns than I want”.
I’ve always imagined Saul Alinsky’s office to look like that ... and that Hatellary Rodham was right at home in the filth.
Marty like.
But it’s too damn bright.
Anderson Cooper's Man Cave
John Muir (father of Sierra Club)? Charles Darwin? Lloyd Wright (pansy architect whose work isn’t standing up to the test of time and elements)? These are “manly men?” I like the choices presented here in the forum better....
Now that’s cool
BUMP
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