Luxury is...

Something that I wanted to comment on since we've received some preliminary statements: The goal of the "Luxury is..." statement is to identify on a highly specific level, a significant and perhaps essential attribute of luxury based on very precise and specific evidence from the case studies. I would encourage everyone to avoid thinking about this statement as a catch-all definition, but rather a key, but partial description of a dimension of luxury - "Luxury is the excess of geometry", "Luxury is many seemingly incongruous yet coincidental functions", etc. Use this as an opportunity to be descriptive and precise about a particular example, not luxury in general. Equally important is the notion that while these statements are speculations about what luxury is, their specificity will also automatically begin to exclude that which is luxury is not.