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With his new Inspector Morse inspired Rolls-Royce
Wraith, pioneering landscape architect Don Brinkerhoff is taking personalisation to a whole new level.
M
aking a car personal - not merely personalising it is absolutely where it’s at right now in luxury cars. It doesn’t matter
how many colours, trims and wheel designs some agency
bit-pony is willing to upload or your fibre is up for downloading; the
action really starts where the pre-configured options stop.
And here’s a first-class example of a deeply personal car created for
the man who has in turn created some of the world’s most celebrated
landscapes, including those rather lovely fountains outside the Bellagio Hotel on The Strip in Vegas, the ones beside which George
Clooney and Brad Pitt say their goodbyes at the end of Ocean’s
Eleven.
Don Brinkerhoff is something of a “gardener to the stars”. His company Lifescapes International has planned and built extravagant
landscape gardens all over the USA, Europe and even a 90 acre
“Classical European” garden in Beijing, right alongside the Imperial
Summer Palace. The landscape architect learned his craft in Europe,
studying in Madrid before embarking, some 50 years ago, on something of a grand tour across the continent. He started Lifescapes
back in the US in Newport Beach, California in 1968.
But the appeal of all things European clearly never left him. The
Rolls-RoyceWraith in the pictures is Mr Brinkerhoff’s fifth, but it's his
most personal to date. “I became a great fan of Inspector Morse
after discovering the series on a TV streaming service,” he has said.
“I challenged the designers to create a bespoke Wraith that paid
homage to Morse’s Jaguar Mark 2. I am absolutely delighted.”
And so he should be. We like the Wraith here and this is an absolutely corking example. It’s the result of some considerabl H[