Research Catalog

Title

Building Bacardi : architecture, art & identity / Allan T. Shulman ; foreword by Terence Riley.

Author

Shulman, Allan T.

Publication

New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bacardi Limited.

Description

240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 32 cm

Summary

"Richly illustrated with vintage, powerfully graphic, and often glamorous imagery, Building Bacardi tells the story of the iconic brand's love affair with high design. Anyway you drink it ... Bacardi rum is the mixable one. Bacardi is best known for its rum and trademark bat logo, yet the famed spirits company has also been a force in the development of avant-garde art and architecture. True to the company slogan, Bacardi has asserted its corporate identity through buildings designed by a potent mix of modern architects with varying, sometimes radically different approaches to architecture. Corporate headquarters, distilleries, bottling plants, and executives' private homes have shaped and reflected Bacardi's position as a regional upstart, a national icon, and a global corporation with outposts in such places as Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Building Bacardi is the first book to explore the twentieth-century architectural legacy of the company."--Publisher website.

Subjects

• Art and architecture
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century
• Bacardi Limited Buildings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: a brand distilled in built -- Pride of Santiago -- Cuban icon -- A cocktail modernity -- Bacardi's Cuban breweries -- Bacardi in Puerto Rico -- Bacardi in exile -- A larger archipelago -- At home everywhere -- Beyond corporate ambition.

ISBN

• 0847847489
• 9780847847488

LCCN

40026031241

OCLC

• ocn915120362
• 915120362
• SCSB-5851669

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries