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Galvanized by the brand’s exuberant Caribbean heritage, where local music and rhythm drive its energetic heartbeat, the BACARDÍ Mixing Console has been custom-built, taking individual rum-soaked staves from the barrels of its premium range to create the turntable’s refined base and bar top.
Each stave has been delicately stripped and cut to bespoke measurements to encase the vinyl turntable, influenced by the brand’s Sound of Rum music track, to determine the placement of the oak from the turntable itself. Adjoined to the console, the bar cart includes a bespoke walnut drinks tray with custom indentations that perfectly house glassware, shakers and a selection of bottles from BACARDÍ’s premium range, which sparked the ideation for the cart, perfect for luxury gifting to elevate festive celebrations from home.
Working in collaboration with famed furniture designer Hugh Miller, the BACARDÍ BACARDÍ Mixing Console eminates museum-quality craftsmanship and boasts numerous details with party-ready elements to get you moving this Christmas, including:
· Built-in Fluance RT80 Vinyl Turntable
· Custom 50-watt Bluetooth speakers, housed in decadent brass mesh fronting
· Record store shelf to house the best festive dance tracks this season
· Decadent walnut cocktail bar top set with its own hand made oak cocktail-stirrers, crafted from the rum barrels
· A bottle of premium BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez
BACARDÍ Brand Director, Fabio Ruffet has commented: “We wanted to bring the exuberant island-heritage of the BACARDÍ brand to life with this console whilst ensuring music was at its core. We know everyone will be celebrating more at-home this Christmas season, whether virtually or within their households, so we wanted to create the BACARDÍ Mixing Console as the perfect way to enjoy the festivities with a premium touch – just like our rums! The rise in premiumisation continues across the UK with a growth of +18% in the UK which is showing no signs of slowing down.”
Beneath the bar top, the brand’s sophisticated and colourful legacy shines through with deep green felt, housing cocktail shakers and additional bar accessories to give you everything you need to host a premium, music-fuelled Christmas at home.
The rare and premium BACARDÍ rums provide a range of possibilities, which have inspired the limited edition console and include BACARDÍ Añejo Cuatro, BACARDÍ Reserva Ocho and the most recent addition to the portfolio, BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez. Each rum has been aged under the warm Caribbean sun, giving them their individuality and wonderful complexity.
Designer, Hugh Miller said: “The BACARDÍ Mixing Console takes inspiration from the heritage of BACARDÍ as an icon of Caribbean culture. This unique visual identity is defined by retrofitting, updating and mixing, and exemplified in the BACARDÍ record console in how the baroque legs are blended with an art deco curved speaker grille, and a glassware shelf lined in vibrant tropical print. BACARDÍ’s premium range is aged in beautiful oak barrels and these have been added into the mix, with barrel staves cast into rum-coloured resin, forming the console top. It’s a carnival in a cabinet, and the perfect complement for a Caribbean soiree.”
As one of the oldest and most respected rum brands in the world, BACARDÍ has more than 157 years of history and heritage. For the family-owned brand, rum is more than about business, it’s personal, with a family name proudly displayed on every bottle and now the Mixing Console This is exemplified through generations of expert craftsmanship and authenticity.
The BACARDÍ Mixing Console will be available from Minimauk.com at £1,700.
For more information on BACARDÍ rum and festive cocktail recipes, visit www.BACARDÍ.com
For press enquiries please contact BACARDÍUK@ogilvy.com.
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About BACARDÍ® Rum - The World’s Most Awarded Rum
In 1862, in the city of Santiago de Cuba, founder Don Facundo BACARDÍ Massó revolutionized the spirits industry when he created a light-bodied rum with a particularly smooth taste – BACARDÍ. The unique taste of BACARDÍ rum inspired cocktail pioneers to invent some of the world’s most famous recipes including the BACARDÍ Mojito, the BACARDÍ Daiquirí, the BACARDÍ Cuba Libre, the BACARDÍ® Piña Colada and the BACARDÍ Presidente. BACARDÍ rum is the world’s most awarded rum with more than 674 awards for quality, taste and innovation. Today, BACARDÍ rum is made mainly in Puerto Rico where it is crafted to ensure the taste remains the same today as it did when it was first blended in 1862. www.BACARDÍ.com
The BACARDÍ brand is part of the portfolio of BACARDÍ Limited, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. BACARDÍ Limited refers to the BACARDÍ group of companies, including BACARDÍ International Limited.
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About Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller is a furniture designer, who is a specialist in timber. Hugh’s passion for wood as a material started when he was young, making his first pieces of furniture at 15. After earning a master’s in architecture from the university of Sheffield, Hugh founded his workshop at the age of 24. Hugh is an expert on Japanese contemporary design, having travelled widely in Japan as a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow for his research study on the unique wood craft culture there, and is a visiting lecturer at Osaka Institute of Technology.
Hugh’s furniture has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery, London; the Cheongju Craft Biennale in South Korea, and at the Næstved Museum, Denmark.
As well as a collection of luxury furniture pieces that are made in-house, Hugh also designs for established luxury brands including BACARDÍ, Benchmark Furniture, Savoir Beds, and IceHotel Sweden.
When not in the studio, Hugh Loves to spend time in the mountains.
Hugh is one half of high-end wood design and making company H. Miller Bros, which he heads up with his brother, architect Howard Miller. H Miller Bros undertake design-lead projects in wood, including the WoodAward winning Constellations Bar, and an amazing burned furniture piece for The National Trust. It is in H. Miller Bros workshops that the unique BACARDÍ Mixing Console is made.
About minima.
Opened in 58 George Street, Birmingham, England on Thursday 24 November, 2016 is minima. providing a high quality service and understanding for needs that reflect the quality, thought and ‘labour of love nature’ of design driven products. With an emphasis on high quality contemporary, classic, licensed furniture, lighting and accessories. minima. curated products are available online and from the studio, a centrally located basement showroom, just a gentle stone’s throw from St Paul's Square.minima. are passionate about well-conceived, well-made and enduring design- providing a second city platform for an alphabet of creators from Aalto to Wegner. In addition to the retail studio, minima. provide service to architects, interior designers and business owners.
