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ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM ARABESQUE: WORLD’ S FIRST LASER-ENGRAVED BONNET HONOURS MIDDLE EAST’ S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars continuously seeks to extend the vocabulary of contemporary craft, developing new techniques and materials to interpret timehonoured forms that resonate across generations and cultures.
Phantom Arabesque speaks to that ambition, exploring Middle Eastern architectural heritage through a newly patented laserengraving technique, developed at the Home of Rolls-Royce.
Curated by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Private Office Dubai, one of five invitation-only commissioning hubs in key luxury destinations around the world, this one-of-one Phantom Extended celebrates the forms and geometry of traditional Mashrabiya latticework – a defining feature of traditional houses, palaces and courtyards throughout the Middle East. The Mashrabiya pattern is reinterpreted in various ways: as the first laser-engraved bonnet ever created for a Rolls-Royce, as an intricate Blackwood and Bolivar marquetry Gallery artwork, and as a suite of Bespoke motifs subtly placed throughout the motor car.
ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION
In an architectural setting Mashrabiya is built using intricately carved wooden screens that create privacy, allowing those inside to look out without being seen. The latticework also encourages airflow,
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