Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

The incredible lengths that Rolls-Royce will go to in order to create its customers' perfect cars are yet again making waves at the Geneva Motor Show
Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

Rolls-Royce has revealed the three stars of its Geneva Motor Show stand, a trio of very special new Phantoms. One was inspired by a key moment in the Phantom’s own history, while the other two are genuine works of modern art.

First on the menu is The Gentleman’s Tourer, an Iced Gunmetal short-wheelbase Phantom with a satin silver bonnet; two colours developed for this customer to meet his demands for something that mirrored his interest in high-performance jet aircraft. It was inspired by a 1930s movement of Phantom II Continental Saloon owners who all drove their cars themselves across Europe and/or the US, usually with friends.

Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

Riding on 22-inch wheels with a “masculine, utilitarian-feeling” interior fitted out for long hauls in sumptuous comfort, with one very special highlight. The ‘gallery,’ as Rolls calls the passenger-facing strip of trim on the dashboard, is finished in Ruthenium, a silver metal similar to Platinum that is mined on a scale just 1/125th that of gold.

Next up is the first of two extended-wheelbase Phantoms with galleries designed by actual artists. The first, called Whispered Muse (although it’s no Phil), features the work of Helen Amy Murray. She used a technique called directional sculpting to create different planes in silk, which come together to form a partial image based on Charles Sykes’ original drawings for the world-famous Spirit of Ecstasy.

Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

The Piano Seashell interior surfaces were polished for 12 hours, rose gold speaker housings were created and the 10-layer paint, crowned by a layer of crystal-effect glass-infused clear-coat, is accented by the first-ever Rose Gold Spirit of Ecstasy figure. It was created, says Rolls, specifically for this ‘valued patron.’

Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

The second extended-wheelbase Phantom is called A Moment in Time. The highlight is, again, on the gallery, where an incredible, flowing sculpture machined and polished from a single solid billet of aluminium echoes the flow of a piece of silk being pulled through water.

Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

We’re not kidding. Rolls photographed the piece of silk underwater, committed the visual data to a digital 3D rendering that artists Based Upon then turned into a clay model. Then followed a wax version, and finally the stunning metal version. Not that it’s the only highlight: the six-layer paint is topped by a blue glass-infused clear coat for a blue crystal look.

Rolls-Royce's Geneva Motor Show Stand Is Basically An Art Exhibition

Also on the stand will be a new Dawn Aero Cowling, designed for the four-seat soft-top Rolls. The hand-made, leather-trimmed unit covers the rear seats to turn the Dawn into a two-seater with lockable storage compartments beneath aerodynamically sculpted cowls.

The shape of the lightweight carbonfibre cowls, which reach from the forward edge of the folded roof’s cover to the rear of the front seats, helps to channel air with minimal turbulence, because you own a Rolls and have no time for any such uncouth unpleasantness as buffeting.

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Anonymous

A car seat more comfortable than my bed, in a car worth more than my house. We should pool all our money together and buy a Phantom just to live in it, anyone in?

03/05/2018 - 10:24 |
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Anonymous

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Yes!

03/05/2018 - 10:30 |
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CS55

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74 6f 74 61 6c 6c 79 21

03/05/2018 - 10:48 |
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Soni Redx (MD Squad Leader) (Subie Squad Leader)

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Jump it into a swimming pool

03/06/2018 - 01:30 |
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Anonymous

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And remember! We can always sleep in a car, but we can never race a house!

03/13/2018 - 00:42 |
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Anonymous

Sports cars are very nice and all but there is something truly special about a beautiful luxury car like a Rolle Royce.

03/05/2018 - 11:27 |
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CS55

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There is something indeed…The Phantom is still hand made (if I am not wrong) and not only that but the extravagant attention to detail, well basically it is the ultimate quality, comfort, all those little details and the special art pieces inside that make these new Phantoms luxury cars with a distinct character like no other ones… Although non-car people won’t appreciate that since they think a Ghost and a Phantom are the same… *but, fanboys, just because you think you can appreciate and love a car “more than anyone else” it doesn’t mean that someone who doesn’t appreciate it as much as you do doesn’t deserve it as much as you do… Now when you work your a s s off and buy the car of your dreams, that shows how much you love that car. You worked your a s s off for it… Or maybe you just got it as a birthday gift… Or something else…

03/05/2018 - 11:45 |
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Porsche 959 (CarThrottle's only Facel Vega fanboy, still act

I’d love a Bentley and wouldn’t mind dailying a Mercedes-Maybach S600, but Rolls-Royce is my favorite carmaker of all time. Why? They’re nothing less than works of art. A Rolls-Royce is simply the ultimate car in terms of luxury, build quality, attention to detail, and anything outside performance. Rolls-Royce doesn’t do performance, old chap. Speed and shoutiness are for over-compensating peasants.

03/05/2018 - 15:43 |
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When a hyper car cost more then a royce and still gets called peasent TRIGGERED

03/13/2018 - 15:11 |
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Lauge

Luxury cars are amazing art

03/06/2018 - 08:22 |
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