Luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce has unveiled the Wraith Luminary Collection - a limited collection of 55 motor cars. These join the ranks of collectible masterpieces, envisioned by the Rolls-Royce bespoke design team and collected by patrons of luxury all over the world, a press release stated.
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, CEO, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, said, “Wraith Luminary is a stunning Collection Car. It speaks directly of our contemporary Rolls-Royce brand – progressive and trailblazing; the pinnacle in hand-crafted luxury. This is a motor car that celebrates visionaries who achieve eminence in their respective fields. Indeed, this collection is for the world’s luminaries.”
A newly developed exterior paint, Sunburst Grey, a hand-painted Sunburst Motif coachline, hand-painted Wake Channel Lines on the bonnet and pinstripes applied to the wheel centres, each in Saddlery Tan, bear reference to the interior leather’s colour.
On opening the coach doors, light flows from the front into the rear passenger compartment.
The Collection’s defining feature, Tudor Oak wood, sourced from the forests of the Czech Republic, selected for its depth of colour and the density of the grain structure, is for the first time, illuminated. The light of 176 LEDs permeates through the perforated design in the Tudor Oak veneer.
The group of engineers, designers and craftspeople located at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, have brought further theatre to the cabin of Luminary in the form of shooting stars. The starlight headliner, a handwoven configuration of 1,340 fibre optic lights, act as a glittering night sky.
Wraith Luminary’s cockpit is trimmed in Saddlery Tan and the rear seats in Anthracite leather. Contrast piping and stitching marry the front aesthetic to the rear.
The application of hand-woven stainless steel fabric, a contemporary and new technique in luxury craft, is appointed to the central transmission tunnel and door panniers, contrasting the Tudor Oak wood and Saddlery Tan leather.
Incorporating strands which are 0.08mm–0.19mm in diameter, this technical fibre is woven in a pattern oriented at 45 degrees, to complement the lines of the interior and provide a uniform appearance throughout the passenger compartment when viewed from either side. Taking three days to produce in a ‘clean room’ environment, the fabric is manipulated to cloak the centre console refracting the light of the illuminated paneling in the doors.
‘WRAITH LUMINARY COLLECTION – ONE OF FIFTY-FIVE’ is engraved in hand-polished stainless steel.