Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan By Cyril Kongo Is a Hand-Painted Art Piece on Wheels

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a collection of five Black Badge Cullinan Private Commissions hand-painted by French multi-disciplinary artist Cyril Kongo, pushing the marque's Bespoke programme into bold new territory.

The Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan by Cyril Kongo project was curated through the brand's Private Offices in New York, Seoul, and Goodwood, with all five cars allocated to collectors worldwide. Pricing has not been disclosed.

Kongo was embedded within Rolls-Royce's Bespoke Collective at its Goodwood headquarters six months before production began, working alongside designers, engineers, and craftspeople at every stage. Each of the five cars shares the same creative concept but carries an entirely unique expression of Kongo's signature aesthetic universe, which he calls the Kongoverse.

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan by Cyril Kongo - Exterior Highlights

All five cars wear a Blue Crystal Over Black finish, where blue metallic particles suspended in the clearcoat shift in sunlight. Each features a first-ever Rolls-Royce Gradient Coachline: Phoenix Red fading to Forge Yellow on the left flank, Mandarin transitioning to Turchese on the right, with Kongo's distinctive tag motif incorporated as a Bespoke element within both.

In another brand first, each of the four brake calipers behind the 23-inch Part Polished Black Badge alloy wheels is a different colour, matching the Coachline and interior accents: Phoenix Red, Turchese, Forge Yellow, and Mandarin. The tag motif also appears on the Bespoke Illuminated Treadplates and the canopy of the door-concealed black Bespoke umbrellas.

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan by Cyril Kongo - Interior & Features

Inside, the cabin is divided into four colour zones for the first time: Phoenix Red for the driver, Turchese for the front passenger, and Forge Yellow and Mandarin for the rear. Each zone is expressed through seat inserts, stitching, piping, headrest monograms, and lambswool carpets.

Kongo hand-painted all 19 pieces of the veneer woodset, covering the fascia, centre console, picnic tables, Waterfall, and rear console, using airbrushes of varying sizes to form a single continuous composition across the cabin. Rolls-Royce artisans then applied ten layers of lacquer to each panel before sanding and polishing to a mirror finish.

The focal point of each car is a hand-painted Starlight Headliner, where Kongo's Kongoverse imagery, including imagined planets, constellations, and equations referencing quantum physics, is rendered across the leather lining alongside 1,344 individually hand-punched fibre-optic stars. Each star's colour and position were personally marked by Kongo before placement by the marque's artisans.

Illumination combinations include Blue, Phoenix Red, Forge Yellow, Cobalto Blue, Twickenham Green, and Lime Green, with eight Shooting Stars per car. One Shooting Star spans the full length of the headliner, a detail Rolls-Royce describes as a brand first. Over 70 paint colours were prepared to give Kongo complete creative freedom across the surface.

A hidden version of Kongo's tag motif is hand-painted on the leather lining inside the sun visor and inside the luggage compartment lid, and the same design is recreated in fine embroidery on each door card.