Manuel Mujica Lainez a great collector that used the objects as inspiration, first part

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This writer was a great collector as much of us, but he was from a rich family and has more money than most of us. His house “The Paradise” was a sort of display of his thoughts and feelings. Wikipedia tell about him
“His parents belonged to old and aristocratic families, being descended from the founder of the city, Juan de Garay, as well as from notable men of letters of 19th century Argentina, such as Florencio Varela and Miguel Cané. As was traditional at the time, the family spent protracted periods in Paris and London so that Manuel, known proverbially and famously as Manucho, could become proficient in French and English. He completed his formal education at the Colegio Nacional de San Isidro, later dropping out of Law School. In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic. This permitted him to marry in 1936, his bride being a beautiful patrician girl, Ana de Alvear, descended from Carlos María de Alvear. They had two sons (Diego and Manuel) and a daughter (Ana). 1936 was also the year of the 25-year-old's first publication, Glosas castellanas. Mujica Lainez was a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1982 he received the French's Legion of Honor. He died at his Villa "El Paraíso" (The Paradise) in Cruz Chica, Córdoba Province, in 1984.”
Yesterday we went there with Sergio and Ricardo and we made an express visit, because the guide did not permit us to watch everything for a long time. There were so many interesting drawings, that were given to him as gifts from well known artists, perhaps as thanks for good critic in the main journal of Argentina, where he worked as an critic for 30 years. Also there were curious objects from all parts of the world since he travelled quite a lot.
In the first picture is the door that Manucho asked the sculpture José María Suhurt to do for the entrance, Adan and Eva in the Paradise, with the serpent and a big fig tree. You know apple in the times the Bible was written was a generic way to say fruit, and several erudite professors agree that sure it was not the fruit Eva and Adan ate. In the second you can see the exact location with the coordinates of Google Earth. The other two show only a two emblematic rooms with some pieces everywhere: the living room and the library. In the living room the incaic huacos under a big Indian mortuary stone, in the seam room there are a collection of catholic saint sculptures (on the pavement near the fireplace there is one) and some semitic collars in turquoise on the wall boiserie. The library is crowded of objects, in the table near the lamp with the yellow shade there is a Sarraguemines pitcher depicting Bartolomé Mitre the founder of the La Nación the journal where it works http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/31388224_a-rare-sarreguemines-water-pitcher-bartleme-mitre .