Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

Luxury and Modernism examines the modes by which luxury was embedded in the design, production, and promotion of modern objects and architecture. It looks at how luxury was present in bold, literal form in modernism's designs-represented by luxurious materials, costly technology, objects, and buildings-and in more nuanced and subtle ways, present in discourses, economic structures, ways of living, and cultural and social milieus.