Rolls-Royce Serenity at the Geneva Motor Show
04 Mar 2015|1,770 views
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has brought Serenity to this year's Geneva Motor Show, unveiling the new standard in authentic, bespoke luxury motoring to the world's media.
Delivering authentic modern luxury, Serenity reintroduces the finest of textiles - silk - to create the most opulent interior of any luxury car. This unique design demonstrates the levels of craftsmanship, creativity and attention to detail only Rolls-Royce Motor Cars can offer.
In order to create the totally one-off bolt of silk for Serenity, the Bespoke team looked to Suzhou, China, the town renowned for its creation of imperial embroidery. The team sourced the unspun silk thread and had it hand-dyed by the Chinese craftspeople that have been creating beautiful silks for centuries.
It was then hand-woven in one of Britain's oldest mills in Essex, into just 10 metres of the fabric - enough to clothe the interior of Serenity - in a process that took two days or two hours per metre of fabric.
The numerous colours of silk thread were painstakingly blended into the highest quality warp which has 140 threads per centimetre to result in the lustrous Smoke Green colour of the underlying silk fabric.
Once prepared, the plain Smoke Green silk was transferred to London where the blossom motif designed by Haye and Lusby - a uniquely modern take on centuries - old silk Chinoiserie - began to flourish across the fabric as British and Chinese craftspeople embroidered their vision of copper-coloured branches and white petals.
The style of painting employed in the design of the Serenity silk is a century-old technique known as 'unconscious painting'. In order to paint a calm and beautiful image, the artist must be calm of mind. Mood becomes all important as it will influence the balance and mood of the work.
In addition, the Phantom Serenity's Bespoke Mother of Pearl paint is the most expensive one-off paint ever developed by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It has been added in a three-stage pearl effect and hand-polished for 12 hours by the craftspeople at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood to deliver this shimmering presence. Hinting at what is to come, a delicate two colour coachline with three colour blossom motif echoes the interior.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has brought Serenity to this year's Geneva Motor Show, unveiling the new standard in authentic, bespoke luxury motoring to the world's media.
Delivering authentic modern luxury, Serenity reintroduces the finest of textiles - silk - to create the most opulent interior of any luxury car. This unique design demonstrates the levels of craftsmanship, creativity and attention to detail only Rolls-Royce Motor Cars can offer.
In order to create the totally one-off bolt of silk for Serenity, the Bespoke team looked to Suzhou, China, the town renowned for its creation of imperial embroidery. The team sourced the unspun silk thread and had it hand-dyed by the Chinese craftspeople that have been creating beautiful silks for centuries.
It was then hand-woven in one of Britain's oldest mills in Essex, into just 10 metres of the fabric - enough to clothe the interior of Serenity - in a process that took two days or two hours per metre of fabric.
The numerous colours of silk thread were painstakingly blended into the highest quality warp which has 140 threads per centimetre to result in the lustrous Smoke Green colour of the underlying silk fabric.
Once prepared, the plain Smoke Green silk was transferred to London where the blossom motif designed by Haye and Lusby - a uniquely modern take on centuries - old silk Chinoiserie - began to flourish across the fabric as British and Chinese craftspeople embroidered their vision of copper-coloured branches and white petals.
The style of painting employed in the design of the Serenity silk is a century-old technique known as 'unconscious painting'. In order to paint a calm and beautiful image, the artist must be calm of mind. Mood becomes all important as it will influence the balance and mood of the work.
In addition, the Phantom Serenity's Bespoke Mother of Pearl paint is the most expensive one-off paint ever developed by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. It has been added in a three-stage pearl effect and hand-polished for 12 hours by the craftspeople at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood to deliver this shimmering presence. Hinting at what is to come, a delicate two colour coachline with three colour blossom motif echoes the interior.
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