2011 Buick LaCrosse GL Concept

2011 Buick LaCrosse GL Concept

Buick‘s color and trim designers worked from the palette of cabernet red, dark cocoa brown and caramel chocochino. They took inspiration in the burnished metal of antique jewelry, ombr patina on vintage guitars and flocked lining of keepsake boxes. For GL’s French-stitched premium leather seats, the designers looked towards the understated elegance of classic club chairs and contours of windswept sand dunes. As well as their use of smooth suede for that headliner is designed to invite one’s touch just like a favorite set of gloves. “The LaCrosse GL concept expresses Buick’s distinctly human type of luxury Body that is as warmly inviting because it is elegant and delicate,” said David Lyon, executive director of design. “The design cues that already distinguish the development LaCrosse – like the premium leather-upholstered seats, ice blue ambient lighting and soft touch surfaces – are amplified within the GL and serve as inspiration for future Buick models.”

LaCrosse GL’s cabernet red exterior paint is complemented by brushed and tinted chrome accents around the grille, door handles and deck lid, in addition to around the windows, taillights and headlights. Machine-face, satin-finish 20-inch rims fill the wheel wells for any firmly planted appearance.

“The brushed-and-tinted chrome trim provides the GL a more subdued appearance than as we had used bright chrome. The general effect is much more in keeping with Buick’s quietly confident aesthetic,” said Magdalena Kokoszynska, creative designer on LaCrosse GL.

Open the GL’s doors and backlit Buick-emblazoned sill plates invite someone to enter like illuminated welcome mats.

Sit back and one is ensconced in luxury, enveloped by flowing sculptural surfaces finished inside a rich mixture of warm-hued materials. They provide soft-touch refinement and surprise-and-delight details. The seats, doors and instrument panel surfaces are finished in contrasting dark cocoa brown and caramel chocochino leather. The seat cushions’ pillowed surfaces evoke windswept sand dunes, and also the ice-blue French stitching along their seams harmonize with Buick’s signature ambient lighting.

Overhead, you find a rich chocochino suede headliner – a fabric and usage rarely observed in anything but probably the most luxurious automotive interiors. This butter-soft material also accents the controls, inviting one’s touch.

Such as the GL’s exterior trim pieces, the inside metal accents around the instrument cluster and center stack controls really are a darker, warmer hue, and therefore are complemented through the swirling grain of wood trim around the steering wheel and dash that evokes the ombr patina fade available on classic Gibson Les Paul guitars.

Focus on detail is also evident underfoot, where leather-surged and accent-stitched floor mats offer further refinement. Likewise, the compartments are flocked such as the interior of the jewel box.

[Source: auto-customs.com]