Luxury
A Rich History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 May 2016
- ISBN 9780199663248
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 237x174x22 mm
- Weight 756 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 64 black & white halftones 0
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Short description:
The first ever global history of luxury, from Roman villas to Russian oligarchs: a sparkling story of novelty, excess, extravagance, and indulgence through the centuries
MoreLong description:
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging super-economies of Asia and Latin America.
Yet luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today's obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. In the middle ages and the Renaissance, for example, luxury was linked to notions of magnificence and courtly splendour. In the eighteenth century luxury was at the centre of philosophical debates over its role in shaping people's desires and oiling the wheels of commerce. And it continues to morph today, with the growth of the global super-rich and increasing wealth polarization.
From palaces to penthouses, from couture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to the twenty-first century: a sparkling and ever-changing story of extravagance, excess, novelty, and indulgence.
There's a tension at the core of the very idea of luxury, and that tension gives this book its sinew.
Table of Contents:
Luxury, Antiquity, and the Antique
The Courts, the Church, and Medieval and Renaissance Luxury
Luxury and the Orient
Housing Luxury: From the Hotel Particulier to the Penthouse
Luxury and the Fashionable Body
Jet Set Life: From Trans-Atlantic to Global Elites
The Chic of Poverty: The Minimalism of Luxury
Everything that Money Can Buy? Manipulating Luxury
Has Luxury Lost its Lustre?
Further Reading
Notes
Index
