Posts Tagged 'exclusive luxury'
Chess: a game for many, sometimes a luxury for a few
The origin of chess is lost in the mists of time, although their spread in Europe goes back a few years after the stroke of the millennium.
Starting from Spain, then under Arab rule, the game spread to neighboring countries and Central Europe. At that time the rules were not yet established and for a period of about five centuries, followed each other definitions, adjustments, changes. Since the end of the fifteenth century took the initiation of strict rules that, despite some variations, were similar to those of today. Indeed, the current rules of the game just come from a variant of that.
The game is, as the price affordable by all, but it is very complex, requires deep reflection, strategies and processes. Not all are able to play. It takes fine minds to make a good chess player.
The chessboard and its pieces can be performed in a wide variety of materials. It starts in fact from stone, metal, glass and leather, up to the wood or plastic. If the first materials are mostly used for the preparation of decorative elements, the latter is used in the daily game.
But there is always someone to wonder and to admire the performances of luxury, making these objects, something available to very few. Such as a checkerboard made on the surface of a table, for which a well-known sculptor has created pieces that evoke medieval warriors and situations. They are bronze with gold plating or silver and cost of eighty thousand Euros. This is your exclusive luxury.
The luxury as a lifestyle
Today everyone is talking about luxury. Even those who can not afford it. Whether it's an asset to be enjoyed or an abstract concept.
The rich class, who can enjoy all the whims and even, sometimes, the originality, not even use the word luxury. We live and that is enough.
Some representatives make it a matter of image and, with their purchases and so extreme that they have, tend to define an environment where the elite spend their time. And in fact live in houses, apartments, vacation villas, vast estates to which the ordinary citizen can not have access. Own private aircraft, custom cars, yachts, islands, movable ultrapreziosi and so on. Their behavior, sometimes excessive, often indicate the category to which they belong.
The middle class already very fortunate compared to those who struggle for survival, can not of course compete with the rich. In recent decades, however, developed a strong accessibility to many luxury goods that could also be acquired from this class.
What makes it move, and much, the world economy it is the increased possibility of the middle class access to several forms of luxury.
Maybe luxury is not exclusive, but still of considerable impact. Great car brand, custom furniture, jewelry, holiday homes, travel and holidays in exotic countries distinguished persons in this category.
Maybe they can afford only one of several items belonging to luxury. Just to make them feel that arrived and perhaps satisfied.
