Rolls-Royce has unveiled the Pinnacle Travel Phantom, a new Bespoke Collection motor car, at the Beijing Motor Show. The car has been conceived to serve as a showcase for the brand’s Bespoke design studios at the home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, England.
According to the World Tourism Barometer published by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, China continues to be the largest outbound travel market for the second year in a row, spending an estimated $125 billion on travel in 2013.
To tap into this growing interest in luxury travel, the Rolls-Royce Pinnacle Travel Phantom offers a luxuriant colour palette, opulent materials and the most complex marquetry ever seen in a Rolls-Royce, aiming to evoke what the designers say is the experience of travelling on luxurious cross-continental trains.
The interior cabin sees 230 individual pieces of marquetry combine to create the motif of a cross-continental train speeding across a landscape with plumes of steam left in its wake. This motif flows across the front-fascia pieces of glove box and passenger panel to the rear picnic tables and door cappings. The same motif bleeds onto the door cards through 24,633 individual stitches, emphasising the craftsmanship required to match the two details.
Source: Rolls-Royce
