Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… luxury (de Vries), from aristocratic displays of wealth and power to the widespread and sociable use of commodities like porcelain and silk. Such displays of tasteful and fashionable objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings … employment and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Art Commodities Community Consumption Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout … by far larger groups in a commercial and urban society (de Vries 43). In the course of the century, ‘new’ luxury items (porcelain, metalware, glass, printed cotton) became available to evermore citizens. Luxury goods were no longer only …
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