- Rolls-Royce commissioned graffiti legend Cyril Kongo to customize five Cullinan SUVs by hand.
- Every interior features painted veneers, colorful leather, and customized Starlight Headliners.
- All five examples are based on the sporty 592 hp Black Badge trim and are already spoken for.
If you’ve ever looked at a graffiti-covered subway car and thought “this needs more lambswool carpeting,” you’re not alone. Rolls-Royce has been thinking along similar lines, and now the British luxury brand has teamed up with French graffiti artist Cyril Kongo to create five hand-painted Black Badge Cullinans. The results will make Rolls traditonalists choke on their tea.
At first glance, the interiors genuinely look like someone parked a $400,000 SUV beneath a freeway overpass for six months. There are spray-paint style graphics across the dashboard, center console, picnic tables, rear divider, and even the Starlight Headliner.
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Kongo isn’t some random wall sprayer Rolls found on Instagram. He’s a major contemporary artist whose work already appears on everything from luxury watches to private jets. Rolls-Royce says the collaboration came together after younger collectors expressed interest in more daring contemporary art commissions through its Private Office studios in New York, Seoul, and Goodwood.
Wisely, Rolls-Royce jumped on the opportunity. Luxury brands love talking about attracting wealthy younger buyers, but most attempts feel painfully forced. This doesn’t. The 592 hp (600 PS), V12-powered Black Badge Cullinan already exists as the Rolls-Royce SUV’s darker, more rebellious alter ego, and Rolls previously tried to draw parallels with the L.A. modified car subculture, so pairing it with graffiti-inspired artwork actually makes sense.
Every Veneer Painted By Hand
The coolest details are the subtle ones. Each cabin is divided into four color zones with bright contrasting leather accents, while Kongo individually painted every veneer piece by hand before Rolls buried everything beneath ten protective lacquer layers. Even the fiber-optic stars in the headliner were positioned according to his artwork.
Outside, things stay relatively restrained, but there are a few details the separate these cars from regular versions of the Cullinan, which was facelifted in 2024. Every one of the five Cullinans gets a dark Blue Crystal Over Black finish plus gradient coachlines that fade between different colors on each side. Rolls even fitted different colored brake calipers at every corner to match the interior accents.
It’d be easy to dismiss this whole thing as rich people trying too hard to look edgy. But there’s something refreshingly unapologetic about it. Rolls-Royce could’ve played things safe with another special-edition SUV featuring different leather and unique floor mats. Instead, it handed spray paint to a graffiti artist and let him loose inside a Cullinan to come up with something genuinely different. But please let him do the outside next time.
