Curated home
A collection about conspicuous consumption. Home pride status showing off and keeping up with the Joneses.
by Andrew Reeves and · updated 1mo ago
Curated home
- how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
from Visualizing Minimalist Design by Thomas Klaffke
Dave King added 1mo ago
- The contemporary home, in addition to housing the interfaces that enable humans to operate the machine for living in, is increasingly an interface itself, mediating between its inhabitants and the outside world.
from Ambient Interfaces by Bram Fritz
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
Curation is a form of positional scarcity that we get whenever there’s an abundance of choice of something, and the average consumer needs help finding what they’d specifically like
from Positional Scarcity by Alex Danco
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
- Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.
from Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols by Rob Henderson
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
No matter how insignificant it may first appear, everything in life tells a story.
from Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
- You might divide everything in life into two categories: utility and beauty. These aren’t mutually exclusive, of course—nearly anything could be both: a shirt, a building, a relationship—the difference comes down to intention.
from Cultivating a Vibe
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
- we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for m... See more
from About
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
- Membership is also a vehicle of the modern aspiration economy. It represents a shift from doing things for the benefit of others (conspicuous consumption) to a value model where we invest in things that benefit ourselves: access, knowledge, information, experience, privacy, belonging, self-actualization. In the modern aspiration economy, consumers ... See more
from From Loyalty to Membership by Ana Andjelic
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago
The bottle service club today pitches Goffman’s “action” to the world’s new elite; it encourages the rich to flaunt their riches, to display wealth for display’s sake. Bottle service clubs are predicated on conspicuous consumption, a term coined, in 1899, by Thorstein Veblen, the quirky Norwegian American economist.
from Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears
Andrew Reeves added 1mo ago