The Peninsula London, in collaboration with CART Department, presents ‘A World Within’ a new project bringing together two of the Peninsula brand’s defining pillars: contemporary art and automotive excellence, in the hotel’s first-ever art fleet. On view from 1 to 31 October 2026, timed to coincide with Frieze London, the collaboration sees an original body of work by commissioned Brooklyn based KOZO, a contemporary artist and globally recognised tattoo innovator whose micro-realism style has reshaped both the fine-art and tattoo worlds.

KOZO’s distinctive graphic style reveals, through tears in reality, a quintessentially British pastoral landscape dotted with classical statuary, historic architecture and iconic Peninsula landmarks. This vision has been immaculately applied across six of the hotel’s signature vehicles: two Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII Series II EWB’s, a Bentley Bentayga, an electrified Austin Taxi, a BMW i7 and a LEVC. A bespoke vinyl wrap, fabricated from the original digital artwork, has been applied by The Peninsula London detailing experts at Topaz.

Each vehicle stands as a work of art in its own right, while together the six cars form a single, unified composition, turning the streets of London into a moving gallery.

A Story Across Six Vehicles

In a project facilitated by CART Department, KOZO created six designs across selected vehicles from The Peninsula London fleet, conceived as one continuous story. Drawing on the history of the hotel, the wider Peninsula story and its British setting, the designs intertwine reality, history and mythology, bringing together Peninsula motifs, including the Guardian Lions, and London landmarks such as Wellington Arch.

Across the fleet, the designs mimic a paper tear, with the iconic Peninsula Pages peeling back the “skin” of each vehicle to reveal scenes inspired by the hotel’s history and surroundings. English pastoral landscapes, from parkland and grazing animals to stately homes, rivers and wooded hills, are rendered in greens, ochres and greys that echo Peninsula Green. The contrast between the three-dimensional landscape and the flatter, monochrome Pages, whose clean outlines evoke a tattoo-flash graphic style, visually separates the history being revealed from the present-day Peninsula figures discovering and interacting with it.

KOZO explains: "The collection brings past and present into conversation, creating unexpected juxtapositions that allow history and myth to feel alive again, inviting the viewer to become part of the story, quite literally, by journeying within the Art Fleet."

From Canvas to Automobile

Over three months, KOZO conceived, produced and applied the designs for The Peninsula London art fleet, beginning with a digital sketch worked directly over photographs of each car. The distinct proportions of each model, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Bentayga, the Austin Taxi and the LEVC posed creative challenges and shaped the design at every turn.

"A car is not a blank white canvas; this project forced me to translate my language as a painter and tattoo artist onto a moving vessel" KOZO explains. "Working with its existing colour (all Peninsula fleet are liveried in Peninsula Green) its curves, the shape of the hood, trunk and doors, and even small details like the side reflectors, all influenced my design choices. Every one of those must be accounted for and, ideally, worked into the composition rather than fought against. "