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"John Huston\nMercurial Director of The Maltese Falcon and The Dead at St. Clerans\nThe Huston estate in Ireland.\n\nWriter-director-actor John Huston, who won two Academy Awards for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947) and was nominated 15 times for such films as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The African Queen (1952) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), lived at St. Clerans, his estate in western Ireland, from the late 1950s to the 1970s.\nHuston's main drawing room.\n\n\"I like to mix good art,\" wrote Huston, describing the eclectic works in the main drawing room. \"The fact that pieces are not of the same period and culture doesn't mean that they will not go together.\" At right is one of Monet's Water Lily paintings, and in the foreground is a Greek marble horse head.\nA hall in Huston's estate.\n\n\"The house itself was one of the most beautiful in all Ireland,\" wrote Huston about the Georgian residence in his autobiography. The estate was an ideal place for him to indulge his passions\u2014riding, painting and entertaining. In one hall, a deep red that Huston was fond of sets off Mexican mermaid sculptures on both sides of a tree-form candelabrum.\nHuston in his art studio.\n\nHuston enjoyed painting in his studio. \"St. Clerans was a wonderful haven,\" he wrote. \"When I came back from a trip abroad and entered that atmosphere, it was a world apart.\"\nHuston's bedroom.\n\nHuston luxuriates in his four-poster Florentine bed, carved and painted with doves and flowers. \"I sometimes feel that I sold a little bit of my soul when I let St. Clerans go,\" he wrote.\nHuston's bath.\n\n\"I had an entire Japanese bath, with shoji doors and mats, sent over and installed,\" wrote Huston. \"The bath accommodated up to six bathers, and was wonderful for after hunting.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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