About Cuban Art Deco (Havana 1950)
Cuban Art Deco from 1950s Havana is the most chromatic, palm-touched variant of the Deco language ever produced. Hotel Nacional brochures, Bacardí Building facades, and Tropicana Cabaret program covers fused European geometric precision with tropical pastel saturation — mint, salmon, flamingo pink, banana yellow — creating a visual world that felt like a rumba rendered in architecture.
This design system captures that pre-Revolution Caribbean glamour: stepped chevrons, scalloped edges, sunburst motifs, and double-line gold borders set against alternating mint and salmon ground panels. Typography pairs monumental geometric display faces with cursive script flourishes, evoking cabaret marquees and tourist-poster lettering from Havana's golden decade.
- Origin
- Havana, Cuba
- Era
- 1930s–1959 (pre-Revolution), peak visual output 1948–1958
- Key figures
- Conrado Massaguer · Eladio Rivadulla · Esteban Rodríguez-Castells · Cabaret Tropicana visual identity team
- Movements
- Cuban Art Deco · Tropical Modernism · Caribbean tourism graphics
Cuban Art Deco (Havana 1950) design spec
Colors
Typography
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