Against though: the utility of luxury

A Italian writer, Stefano Zecchi, in his book The luxury said: “Actually, the luxury is considered as absolutely useless, and superfluous and useless, but it is true? No certainly, because if it is was useless nobody would want it, instead it is useful because every day we have demonstration, during journalistic service about the meeting in some presidential home, no certainly private, that it is the Quirinal in Italy, the White house in USA or Palais de l’Élysée in France or other States, the residences are the mirror of country; hence the representation of luxury is representation of wealth and elegance of State, because from these meeting would come affairs and money and economy, the guest must be welcome in luxury house, because from it depends the presentation to guest that isn’t a private citizen but a chief of State, whereby he is the country in that moments and the guest represents other State thereupon the luxury is necessary to whole country that welcomes the guest. On private level the same costume is necessary, a business man can’t welcome a guest in a hut, because it isn’t elegant and from these meeting could or certainly come affairs, because the elegance, and luxury are necessary to everybody, because to house image is tide the owner; the restaurant in the hut I don’t think that must deny booking; the image in politic, both personal that public is all, and the luxury is fundamental to give this image. In history the politic power is always shown for luxury, also to private citizen, the villas of lords, during Renaissance, were the present oneself, for this the villas were often decorated, because it was necessary to celebrate the lord or owner that he was a pope or laic, but it was possible alone a luxurious residence or villa, and often the official meetings were among private citizens; the peace called commonly as peace of Paris, in year 1783, between the independent states of USA and British kingdom was signed in Versailles; why this luxurious palace, they must alone signed a document, they could make it also in tavern in front of a bottle of wine and with some whore, or not? If this meeting was occurred so, the war would be again present; the embassies have the same protocol, this is those formal rules that are necessary to speak to a strange represent, above all if he is a politic, the ambassador must be keep his rule and his behavior that must be always polite and diplomatic, without emotions and sentiments, but he is a person, the seat of representation is embassy, that must be perfect and luxurious because it represents the owner of embassy that is a State. Hence the common opinion about the luxury is false, the luxury is useful, in fact the private citizens haven’t this luxury because they don’t welcome the guest so important; the rich men must be keep their luxury because they must keep their richness.

Alessandro Lusana