Rolls-Royce Motor Cars hires ex-BMW man to be its new design chief

By CARSIFU | 21 May 2021


LONDON: Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today announced that Anders Warming has been appointed its design director.

He will join the company from July 1.

Warming, 48, joins Rolls-Royce Motor Cars from Warming Design, the company he founded in 2019.

His experience includes almost 20 years in senior positions in the BMW Group, including Head of Design at MINI and Exterior Chief Designer at BMW. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is part of the BMW Group.

Outside of BMW, Warming had held various senior design positions in companies including Borgward and Volkswagen.

Warming hails from Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated in Major Transport Design at the ArtCenter College of Design, Vevey, Switzerland and Pasadena, USA.

"Anders joins us as we move forward to full electrification of our brand, which will shape Rolls-Royce for decades to come," said Rolls-Royce Motor Cars CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös.

"He will face the challenge of upholding the fundamental design principles of Sir Henry Royce himself, which have guided us for over 100 years.

“To become the Director of Design for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is the most prestigious and challenging brief in the luxury industry. It offers unique opportunities for innovative creativity, imagination and exploration of new genres ... we are all looking forward to working with him at Rolls-Royce."

Keywords