Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… silk. Such displays of tasteful and fashionable objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some … people, in sociable contexts, for instance at the tea-table (china) and dances (dress), likewise in public leisure spaces. 3 Eighteenth-century Britain saw an ongoing luxury debate, which occurred during a period when consumerism and … 8 yet it can be contended that the process was more of a gradual nature. The new luxury was exhibited in domestic spaces and in public spaces of leisure. Since domestic spaces were the stage where costly items for example furniture, …
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