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14 Famous Man Rooms
The Art of Manliness ^ | July 27 2010 | Brett & Kate McKay

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.

Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Studio

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 ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: manrooms; men
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To: Daffynition

21 posted on 07/30/2010 7:58:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: La Lydia

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. ;)


22 posted on 07/30/2010 8:01:23 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: Daffynition
Gibbs' basement


23 posted on 07/30/2010 8:01:28 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Daffynition
This is mine:

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.

24 posted on 07/30/2010 8:01:30 AM PDT by Snake65 (Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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To: Daffynition

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.


25 posted on 07/30/2010 8:01:57 AM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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To: Daffynition

We call the man room in our house the “Ball Room”.


26 posted on 07/30/2010 8:04:31 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: agere_contra
Coming to any one of the many empty offices space in *your* neighborhood. ;)


27 posted on 07/30/2010 8:04:35 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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28 posted on 07/30/2010 8:06:32 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: martin_fierro
Thanks for your *before* picture ... this is the *after.* ;)


29 posted on 07/30/2010 8:07:12 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: Daffynition
LOL!
30 posted on 07/30/2010 8:07:14 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Daffynition

Are you married? If not, I volunteer. LOVE your taste in decorating.


31 posted on 07/30/2010 8:08:23 AM PDT by ottbmare (Off-the-Track Thoroughbred Mare)
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To: Daffynition

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”.


32 posted on 07/30/2010 8:09:23 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Daffynition

I’ve always imagined Saul Alinsky’s office to look like that ... and that Hatellary Rodham was right at home in the filth.


33 posted on 07/30/2010 8:09:33 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
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To: Scythian
That is the most awesome log cabin ever.
34 posted on 07/30/2010 8:09:43 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Daffynition
iGore's poodle den:


35 posted on 07/30/2010 8:10:42 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: Snake65

Marty like.

But it’s too damn bright.


36 posted on 07/30/2010 8:11:47 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Daffynition

Anderson Cooper's Man Cave

37 posted on 07/30/2010 8:13:15 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Daffynition

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....


38 posted on 07/30/2010 8:13:27 AM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: Scythian

Now that’s cool


39 posted on 07/30/2010 8:13:37 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Daffynition

BUMP


40 posted on 07/30/2010 8:15:18 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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