TOKYO: Rolls‑Royce Motor Cars presents the Phantom Cherry Blossom, which was commissioned by a client in Japan.
In a statement, the luxury automaker said "This magnificent one-of-one Phantom Extended commission is inspired by the fleeting beauty of the Sakura blooms and a Japanese client’s formative memories of this stunning natural spectacle."
As Sakura blooms are short-lived, lasting only around a week, they serve as a poignant reminder to cherish the present and embrace life.
Cherry blossoms are celebrated in the centuries-old tradition of ‘Hanami’, or 'flower viewing'. During Hanami, families and friends gather beneath the delicate pink blooms of cherry trees for picnics and celebrations, relishing the transient beauty of the season.
A client in Japan wished to capture their cherished Hanami memories, spanning both childhood and parenthood.
Inside the motor car, intricate embroidery captures the sensation of sitting beneath a flowering tree during Hanami, just as the client envisioned.
A Bespoke Starlight Headliner is adorned with an embroidered cherry bough, sprinkled with delicate white blossoms.
The falling petal embroidery appears on the rear door panels and Privacy Suite partition between the front and rear passenger compartments.
The design and development of this remarkable expression of contemporary craft spanned more than six months.
The headliner required three weeks alone to embroider and exceeds 250,000 stitches.
In a Rolls-Royce first, the interior is completed with three-dimensional cherry petal embroidery.
These tactile, sculptural details grace the division, creating a striking contrast to the classic stitchwork of the falling cherry petals on the doors.
Creating these three-dimensional embroideries required specialists to pioneer a new technique, where the thread is layered upon itself to form a self-supporting structure.
Each petal is then shaped and sculpted into its final form by hand before being stitched into place, individually positioned to complement the interior lighting and create soft shadow effects.
