... In the outskirts of Bikfaya stands a villa, surrounded by gardens of trees and flowers, set apart from the massive buildings of that green neighborhood by a splendid artistic touch, and by care and taste. At the entrance of the lane leading to the villa is written "Qaysariyyat al-Gemayel" — prepare yourself, before stepping into the garden, to enjoy everything that delights the eye and stirs in the soul its musings and longings... How like appetizers this announcement is — making the mouth water and tempting the stomach with the delights of food!
It is only fair to say: this villa of César Gemayel is a small museum of art. No sooner have you crossed the threshold than you are stopped by the figures of slender young girls carved upon the doors, bearing baskets of grapes and jars of water, with deer and goats around them, and a flute player... sweet pictures from our own mountain, threatened with extinction by the fingers of time, which the authentic Lebanese artist undertakes to immortalize — in time's despite!!
Inside the salon you are greeted by faces of tenderness, "the Gemayel girls" — speaking of allure, of innocence, of desire — and all of them distinguished by a soft "femininity"...
The second floor has its large share of paintings and artistic masterpieces: colors that clamor, harmonize here, dance there, and there sleep and dream, stirring in the soul all manner of sensations and tremors.
Sunset overtook us before we had had our fill of pictures
The artist Gemayel presents his "girl" as a model of his paintings, pulsing with warmth, femininity, and allure... Of what, do you suppose, is he dreaming as he stands there?!
From the eastern balcony of "Qaysariyyat al-Gemayel," where the mountains meet in an eternal embrace at the feet of white Sannine.