Curated home
A collection about conspicuous consumption. Home pride status showing off and keeping up with the Joneses.
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Curated home
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
Ana Andjelic • From Loyalty to Membership
Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.
Rob Henderson • Luxury Beliefs Are Status Symbols
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
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
Scarcity makes the product appealing and curation sets it apart
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.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
how design has become mass user-centered, driven by rules of optimization, efficiency and engineering.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
warm minimalism
Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves with price and performance, as traditionally defined. In a crowded marketplace, aesthetics is often the only way to make a product stand out.
-Virginia Postrel
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.