These Colorful Rolls-Royce Bespoke Builds Are Inspired By Chinese Murals

Rolls-Royce has dropped the latest collection from its Bespoke division called Chinese Mural Arts, revealing a trio of luxury products built for the company’s private office in Shanghai and inspired by cave paintings in Dunhuang, China. The pink Cullinan Black Badge, blue Spectre Black Badge, and two-tone purple Phantom Extended all feature design elements and color choices pulled directly from the ancient murals, giving them a deeper, more significant feel than their look-at-me hues might suggest.

A Hand-Painted Homage To History

Inside the Phantom Extended is the most obvious callback to the cave paintings. Displayed on the dashboard’s “gallery” and enclosed behind a transparent panel is a swath of leather that’s been hand-painted in the style of Chinese reduction block printing. Using colors inspired by the Dunhuang murals, Bespoke artist Chloe Dowsett applied colors one layer at a time and left some of the black leather exposed, giving the painting the three-dimensional style characteristic of block prints. Embroidered into the black leather are “Silken Spirit” motifs, which were conceived by Bespoke designer Shuai Feng. The Silken Spirit logo takes inspiration from Rolls-Royce’s flying-lady hood ornament, reimagined as if she were draped in fine Chinese silk.

That logo appears on the Phantom’s exterior as well, applied to the C-pillar in Ningye Purple to match the main body color that’s reportedly inspired by a poetic description (dating back to 800 AD) of the nighttime skies above the Great Wall of China. The two-tone uppers are done up in English White. Black and Cashmere Grey leather upholstery – reversed for the front and rear seating areas – combine with a fiber-optic headliner with 1,344 static and 192 shooting stars to give the Rolls-Royce Phantom a tranquil cabin experience.

Thinking Pink (And Blue) For The Black Badge

The second model in the series is a vibrant Cullinan Series II painted Danqian Pink with matching hubs for its 23-inch Black Badge wheels. The Silken Spirit motif appears on the C-pillar and coachlines in black. Inside, the front seats have Blushing Pink upholstery, while the rear cabin has Navy Blue leather with pink piping. The seats are precision-stippled with 107,000 individual perforations, their placement intended to evoke the wispy clouds above Goodwood, Rolls-Royce’s home in the U.K. Meanwhile, Blushing Pink fiber-optic lights appear in the Navy Blue headliner, which also gets Silken Spirit animations to tie it in with the exterior a bit.

Rolls-Royce also bestows some Bespoke magic on its first EV, the Spectre. In this case, the Black Badge variant is painted two-tone, with a Qingshan Blue main body – inspired by the blue-green tones in the cave murals – and vibrant metallic Diamond Black for the roof and hood. The Spectre gets its own Silken Spirit motifs on the C-pillar and coachline, as well as in the starlight headliner. Turchese front seats and black rear seats with white piping correspond to the console and deep-pile carpeting, respectively.

This isn’t the first time Rolls-Royce Bespoke has undertaken a project in China. The company celebrated the Year of the Dragon (February 2024 to January 2025) with four individual Phantom builds, while a fifth Bespoke creation celebrated the end of the period earlier this year.

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