Ernest Hemingway, a master of home art

Hemingway's home design concept is simple: everything must be related to me, and my story is in it.

Finca Vigia, Vega Manor is Hemingway's small estate in Havana, Cuba. He lived here from 1940 to 1960. He regarded the small estate, which he had lived for 20 years, as his paradise. This is where he wrote novels such as The Old Man and the Sea and Crossing the River. Unlike the previous days of living in Paris, Hemingway owned his small manor, and like many people who bought the house, he carefully decorated and decorated every room of the house. Everywhere reflects his hobbies: reading, writing, hunting, pleasure life, and, of course, his eccentricities.

the front of Wikia Manor

first of all, the main room of Wikia Manor faces south, goes up the steps, and has a wide porch platform around the house. Hemingway and his wife Mary wash their hair on the porch every Wednesday, and they use Rain Water to wash their hair. They think it's better for their hair. Sure enough, he is also the master of health art Hemingway.

entering the living room, on the east wall, you can see a huge oil painting of matadors and running bulls. This painting is the work of Robert Domingo, a Hispanic French painter, who is very famous for painting bullfighting scenes. Later, when Hemingway wrote a long article about Spanish bullfighting, "Death in the Afternoon" was published, he used this painting on the east wall of his living room to make a cover. In this way, you don't have to pay for the picture.

the bullfighting oil painting on the east wall of the living room

the painting on the east wall of the living room was later used in Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" cover

and then, the living room, the most important household decoration element of the whole Virgin Manor is about to come out-the animal head, you can count in the reading, how many animals heads Hemingway used to decorate his home and show off his masculinity at the same time. On the east wall of the living room, there is an antelope head on each side of the bullfight oil painting on the east wall. On the left is the booty of his 1934 African safari, and on the right is the fight he took in Kenya in the same year.

Hemingway sits on the living room sofa for two, and behind it is the bullfight painting on the east wall of the living room

along with the oil painting on the east wall of the living room, you can go north and enter the dining room. The east wall of the dining room has six windows, and there are no walls in the north and south, so the living room is the coolest place where the wind passes through the hall. Hemingway often writes here with a cat in his arms (I will write this in detail next time, Hemingway, a master of pet art). In the middle of the west wall of the restaurant, next to a painting, is the painting "Farm" by the Spanish painter Juan Milo (Juan miro). This is Hemingway's favorite painting, so Hemingway usually sits writing at the dinner table with his back to the window and facing the painting, so that he can look up and see the painting. In 1957, the Museum of Modern Art in New York persuaded Hemingway to lend the painting to them for exhibition. as a result, it was never returned after the exhibition. In 1986, Hemingway's widow Mary donated the painting to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Hemingway was teasing the cat in the living room, and behind it was the picture "Farm"

"Farm"

all right, pay attention and began to calculate. On the two pillars south of the restaurant, there was a deer head, which was hunted in the Sun River Valley, and an antelope head was also hung on the pillars on both sides of the north gate of the restaurant. Above the painting on the west wall of the restaurant, there is a long-necked antelope head, an antelope head, and a deer head, respectively, on the left and right side of the painting, and in the middle of the six windows is a huge antler. Well, there are a total of eight heads in the restaurant, most of which were hunted by Hemingway during his trip to Africa in 1953.

the master of hunting art Hemingway

returned to the living room. In front of the bullfight painting on the east wall, there was a double sofa and footstool, facing a pair of armchairs in the southwest of the living room. Hemingway often sits there at noon to read books and then fall asleep with his dog, and Hemingway is very determined that he is not a close friend and cannot sit on that armrest sofa. What a Sheldon Hemingway.

do not sit on the armchair

Hemingway knows how to make himself comfortable, so on the small coffee table in front of the armchair, there are usually ice buckets, more than two kinds of whisky, dry absinthe, a bottle of Gordon gin, and many bottles of mineral water and tonic. When he sat on the armrest sofa and read, he could stretch out his arm to get a drink without getting up. Stories and wine were in his hands. In many parts of Hemingway's home, this design concept was embodied: what I like, it must be readily available. Therefore, in almost every room, book, and wine in his home, it is a necessary existence, and this is the real household concept suitable for life and hobbies. Instead of getting up and rummaging around looking for wine, I don't want to read anymore when I go back.

Hemingway's Home concept: stories and wine must be readily available

based on this idea, there are four bookshelves in the living room, one against the west wall and one against the north wall, and two under the heads of two antelopes on the south wall. There is also a bullfight by Robert Domingo above the bookcase on the north wall.

the southwest corner of the living room behind the armchair is a phonograph given to him by a good friend. Hemingway is a complete chores animal in music, and he listens to many types of music, of course, classical music and jazz. Bach, Stravinsky, Lewis Armstrong are his most common listeners, which is very similar to Haruki Murakami, perhaps Murakami learned it from Hemingway.

all right, concentrate and start counting. There are five heads in the living room, two on the south wall, two on the east wall, and a deer head on the west side of the north wall. It was hunted by his wife Mary in Idaho, plus eight restaurants. There are now 13.

on the west wall of the living room, there is a very special thing on the bookshelf on the west wall of the living room leading to Hemingway. It is also Hemingway's other home eccentricities and hobbies outside the antelope head-a gift in the circle of friends, to highlight the world status of the owner of the house. Hemingway, who is so fond of hunting and changing girlfriends to show his masculinity, it is not surprising to have this preference for straight male cancer. On the bookshelf is a replica of Sputnik, the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union. This is a gift from Hemingway's good friend and Soviet leader Migao Yang to Lao Hai.

above the bookcase, there is also a copy of Goya's holy baby painting. This is Hemingway's taste. I really can't afford to buy it but like the painting very much. It is also possible to decorate my home with high imitation. But if you know that the painting is a gift from Hemingway to his wife Mary during a trip to Europe, it implies that it is not shameful to be a gift, even for a well-known writer.

after talking about the bookshelf and the wall, let's talk about the ground. The floor of the living room is covered with a large mat made in the Philippines, but this mat is of great significance. It was bought by Hemingway when he went to China on his honeymoon with his third wife Martha in the 1940s. The mat traveled thousands of miles from China to Cuba in the Caribbean, and it was also considered loyal, because the mats were all rolled up by long-distance boat, and all the family members of Virginia Manor had to fight together with all kinds of furniture. To flatten this stubborn mat from China.

Hemingway stands in front of the low bookshelf in the workshop and writes on a typewriter

from the west side of the living room, you can enter Hemingway's workshop. This guy's home design concept is the most thorough here in the workplace: there is a bed in the workroom. and it's a big bed. Hemingway reads books and Rest in bed, so there are all kinds of magazines, books, and newspapers in bed for a long time, and then always put a bottle of mineral water beside the bed. There is a small bookshelf on the east wall opposite the bed, and above it is an antelope head hunted back from Africa in 1934. This is the 14th animal head.

once upon a time, there were pictures of Juan Grace and guitar players hanging on the wall above the head of the bed in the workplace. Hemingway once said: "This is my favorite painting, it reminds me of that special period, if this house is on fire, the first thing I want to save is this painting." The painting reminded him of the days of writing in his humble abode in Paris. The painting was later collected by Hemingway's descendants and brought back to the United States.

although Hemingway was reading on the bed of the workshop, he was standing on the small bookshelf near the wall of the workshop. he also put his typewriter there, but he found that it still seemed a little short, so he found a thick book to cushion it, "just right. No more trouble." Hemingway usually gets up at 6 a.m. and gently doesn't disturb anyone's sleep. He says it's like hunting. He does some simple stretching exercises. Then he goes to the workplace to write, wearing only shorts in the summer, topless and barefoot. He sharpens his pencils, and his habit of writing is that he writes in pencil when he writes the dialogue of characters, types on the typewriter when he writes other descriptions and locks the manuscript in a drawer when he is finished.

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to the north of the living room is Hemingway's study, marked by a huge buffalo head, also played in Africa. There are three paintings on the bookshelf on the south wall, but they were brought back to the United States by Mary after Hemingway's death. There are also many knives and guns in this room, all of which are beloved of Hemingway, the master of hunting art.

study

the northwest room of the house is Hemingway's bathroom. here you can also see the shadow of Ernest Hemingway, a master household designer. Even in the bathroom, he put bookcases, books, and various medicines at the same time.

to the north of the house is Hemingway's library. The east and west walls of the library are all ceiling-to-floor shelves with ladders. Hemingway has more than 8500 books. There was also a cow's head on the wall of the library, but it was not a beast's head cut off by hunting, but a gift from Hemingway's good friend, Picasso, a cow's head made of clay. At the same time, there are two vases from Venice, Italy, on the bookshelf.

Reading room

on the west wall of the library, there is a beautiful thing, a complete lion skin, cut from head to body fur by Mary in 1954. In 1961, Mary brought the lion skin back to the United States and left it in her apartment in New York.

behind Hemingway and his fourth wife, Mary, is Mary's hunting lion skin

and finally, the bedroom, where the obvious home is the big bed, which was made by Hemingway and his third wife Martha. When Mary moved in, she made a lot of changes to erase the traces of her predecessors. for example, she had a row of low bookshelves made at the head of the bed for her horticultural books and magazines. On the other hand, a small sofa at the foot of the bed was covered with sharkskin on the armrest. It was a shark caught by Mary and Hemingway during a fishing trip.

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Master Hai's bedroom. To remove the traces of her third term, the fourth wife has this appearance.

on the wall above the small sofa, there is a picture of waldo pierce, almost transforming the young Hemingway into Balzac, and there is an antelope head on the wall.

is that portrait Balzac or Hemingway?

this is Hemingway's home. He decorated his home with the heads of more than 20 animals to show his rich experience of hunting on various continents. He and his wife designed and hired people to make a lot of furniture. Every place reflects his hobby: books and wine must be available anywhere in the home.

if you ask, why is he so leisurely to delve into home decoration?

the answer is very simple because he is Hemingway, he does not have to go to work.