Bespoke colour choices lead to leather first for Rolls-Royce
Automotive brand Rolls-Royce will showcase the skills of the craftspeople in its bespoke atelier by putting two recent, eye-catching fruits of the team’s labour on display at Monterey Car Week 2021 in California.
The commissions that visitors to the event will see are a Ghost and a Cullinan Black Badge, the first in a colour Rolls-Royce calls Friskee Pink, the latter in its Iced Turchese turquoise tone. These commissions use the customers’ chosen colours on the vehicles’ exterior, with leather in the interior of the vehicles in carefully chosen complementary colours.
In the interior of the Friskee Pink Ghost, for example, the bespoke team has used navy blue and arctic white leather, with pink touches coming in a new colour for the Rolls-Royce leather workshop, Shieda. The company describes this as a bright and bold magenta pink. Shieda leather appears on the headrests and on leather-encased indicator stalks.
In the case of the Cullinan Black Badge, the interior is mostly in black leather, with leather in the Turchese colour used for highlights.
This year’s Monterey Car Week ran from August 5-15. The two Rolls-Royce exhibits were selected to be part of an exclusive component called ‘The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering’, held on August 13 at the Quail Lodge & Golf Club.
