The Third Realm of Luxury
Connecting Real Places and Imaginary Spaces
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In a world that is obsessed with luxury, critical luxury studies is a rapidly emerging field. This is the first book to explore the interplay between the real and imaginary realms of luxury, considering the most significant developments in the theories and practices of luxurious places and spaces over the last fifty years. Providing a critical approach to contemporary interpretations of luxury, the book interrogates the distinction between real places and imaginary spaces. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it features a range of case studies which take the reader from the Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge to expressions of sensuality in the 1970s domestic interior, and global conceptions of fine wine and art. The Third Realm of Luxury considers the interplay between luxury and space in both the past and the present, examining the abstract conception of excess and exoticism, as well as the real locations of the home, hotel, apartment, and palace. Full of original research, it is a key contribution to the study of consumption, design, fashion, and architecture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The third realm of luxury: Conceptualizing the connections between real places and imaginary spaces
- 2 Being luxurious: On the Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge and beyond
- 3 The architecture of authoritarian luxury
- 4 Inhabiting luxury spaces
- 5 A touch of the exotic: Sensuality as luxury in the 1970s’ domestic interior
- 6 The emptying of the interior: Luxury, space, and the hotel effect in contemporary life
- 7 “The Collective”: Luxury in lounge space
- 8 “The third realm of luxury” as I experienced it in the legacies of Getty and the Rockefellers: Elite enclosure, “as far as the eye can see . . .”
- 9 Secret spaces of luxury: Ignorance, free ports, and art
- 10 Of space and time in California wine
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Copyright