Updated on January 3, 2017
Rolls-Royce Interior Designer Photographed Buying Dashboard Wood From Lumber Liquidators
When Parksplug’s U.K. photographer Gleeson Winchester stopped by his local Lumber Liquidators store to pick up some inexpensive Chinese cork flooring for his flat’s nook — not to be confused with a flat snook — the last thing he expected to see was a Rolls-Royce interior designer looking through wood samples.
A Rolls-Royce Dawn pulling a trailer loaded with laminate leaves Lumber Liquidators
“He had large photograph of a Phantom dashboard and was holding up the wood samples next to the picture,” said Winchester. “I’m not sure what he was doing, but he attempted to hide his face when he saw me.”
Winchester said the Rolls designer, identified as Bram Hogarth, purchased several pallets of hand-scraped Valley Birch laminate. “It’s a nice looking product,” commented Winchester. “But it smells like an old bowling shoe.”
Rolls-Royce declined comment on the story, but a company spokesperson did state emphatically that the company uses “only the finest pressed and dehumidified Italian Walnut root balls” in crafting their cars’ interiors.
