Churchill: "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
Almost every residence has a home office these days, and most are
eminently male spaces. They have extensive wood paneling, high beam
ceilings, wood or stone floors, floor-to-ceiling cabinets and shelving,
computer closets, often a fireplace, sometimes a discrete bar, and a
desk with a window view. Regrettably, many open directly into larger
living areas, thereby losing the discretion of privacy, and many have
windows made never to open, discouraging indoor cigars. Lesser abodes
often have a workshop somewhere on the premises, and their windows
always open. All these spaces smack of work.
Oscar Wilde: "Work is the curse of the drinking class."
Many genteel, er upscale homes these days also have elaborate "serving
areas" built into a cavernous living space, often accompanied by an
independently cooled wine room with a designated bottle capacity. These
trend more architecturally gender-neutral. However, relief is found in
the liquor cabinet. Women may buy wine, but Men select the booze. The
manliest of these bars resemble an imagined English pub complete with a
painted nude and a portrait of Churchill, neither air-brushed. In Texas
a gun will hang on a rack. In south Texas and El Paso a band of ammo
will be slung over the gun.
The only woman I ever met who smoked more cigars than her husband ran a
used car lot in Austin, for Jaguars. Her dark office was a shrine to
cigar boxes, and her windows were always open. The relationship must
have been breathtaking.
Even Churchill Chat needs to have its seamy underside rolled over from
time to time. Thanks Bill.
HC
On 8/10/2010 2:34 PM, Bill Loytty wrote:
while most of my learned colleagues on this list are far too
preoccupied with weighty matters to search the seamy underside of the
internet, I have assumed that duty.
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/07/27/famous-man-caves/
lists WSC’s studio as a famous ‘man-cave’, where men go to do manly
things. Of course this is superficial, trivial, and otherwise not at
all remarkable, but it’s a good mention of WSC in a positive light. I
applaud it.
Regards,
Bill
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