"Cola-Cola" by Walter Yarwood Commemorative plaque, 2018.
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Resource ID
8796
Access
Open
Address
42 Overlea Boulevard, Toronto, ON M4H 1B6
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2018
Historical Themes
Architectural Heritage, Visual Arts
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Time Period
1900-1953, 1954-1998
Caption
"Cola-Cola" by Walter Yarwood Commemorative plaque, 2018.
Description
For 50 years, a bronze sculpture by Walter Yarwood, one of Canada’s leading artists, was located here in a sunken courtyard outside the Toronto offices and bottling plant of the Coca-Cola Company of Canada.
Coca-Cola Canada commissioned the sculpture for its new headquarters, which was designed in the International style by the noted Toronto architecture firm Mathers & Haldenby. The low-rise complex, opened in 1965, was part of the industrial area in the planned community of Thorncliffe Park.
Yarwood started his career as an abstract painter before turning to sculpture in 1960. For this commission, he stacked and intertwined several forms modelled on the famous Coke bottle shape. The result was cast in bronze and stood five metres high.
The sculpture stood on a bronze and terrazzo globe marked with longitude and latitude lines to represent the international reach of the company. At the base, “Drink Coca-Cola Ice Cold” was written in several languages.
The sculpture was taken down in 2015 when Coca-Cola Canada moved.
Marker lat / long: 43.706817, -79.347554 (WGS84)