Rolls-Royce Bespoke Ignores Restraint With Its Latest Trio

Bespoke Department Gets Three Different Cars To Play With

The only people who aren’t worried about the ever-increasing cost of new cars are those in the top 1%, and Rolls-Royce continues to find ways to give them new but meaningful ways to stand out. The Chinese Mural Art Bespoke commissions fit the bill, taking inspiration from Dunhuang cave paintings in China, near the Gobi Desert, dating back over a millennium. The collection comprises the long-wheelbase Phantom Extended and the high-performance Black Badge variants of the Cullinan and Spectre, and each is painted in new Bespoke colors that only Private Office Shanghai customers can take advantage of (by invitation).

Silken Spirit For The Phantom

Created by the Private Office’s designer, Shuai Feng, a recurring motif called Silken Spirit is said to take inspiration from the Spirit of Ecstasy mascot and “the flowing forms of imperial silk.” In the Phantom, this is most evident in the hand-painted and embroidered Gallery (dashboard), where Bespoke Artist Chloe Dowsett used a fine sable brush to paint each color individually and consecutively, with other small areas of leather left unpainted to create a finish resembling Chinese reduction block printing. Black and Cashmere Grey leathers with reversed colorways front and rear are complemented by Canadel wood panelling in Piano Black and Cashmere Grey. As always, the Starlight Headliner finishes things off, in this case with 1,344 hand-placed fiber-optic lights and 192 ‘shooting stars.’

On the outside, this car gets a Ningye Purple lower section, said to be inspired by the skies above the Great Wall of China, contrasted by English White. The Silken Spirit motif is, again, hand-painted on the C-pillar in the violet hue, finishing off a coachline in Grace White.

Black Badges Are Anything But Subtle

Danqian Pink. Not only is the car painted this color, but so are the centers of the 23-inch forged wheels of this Black Badge Cullinan. The Silken Spirit motifs reappear here, and inside, the front seats are Blushing Pink leather with over 100,000 carefully placed perforations. This is supposed to evoke the shifting cloud formations above the Rolls-Royce HQ in Goodwood, “representing a cultural dialogue between past and present, East and West, tradition and innovation.” At the back, the leather is Navy with the piping and stitching in pink, and those seated there look up at the Silken Spirit motif in a glowing, matching pink. At least the shooting stars are white.

The EV gets what Goodwood calls an Aero two-tone, with the body painted Qingshan Blue. This color is inspired by the blues and greens in those murals we mentioned at the outset, and the illuminated grille glows Turchese. Diamond Black on the upper half of the car provides some contrast, and a mix of those two hues appears inside, with white stitching and piping for the rear seats. The turquoise and black theme reappears in the center console and lambswool carpets, and even the illuminated door sills.

As always, a price has not been disclosed, but a trio like this will certainly be comfortably into seven-figure territory.