Making Luxury

I was reading Kahn's thoughts on "making" and I began to wonder what is in involved in making and how do you classify something as being made...isn't everything made. This got me to thinking. Well, I also had other things on my mind. I was at work and we started talking about the notion of luxury. My boss asked to me to define what luxury is in todays corporate environment. I work in contract furniture so he wanted me to look at office lobbies and the corporate environment.

So with the idea of luxury, this word "making", and my blog of light in my head, I thought about a product from designer Barber Osgerby. It is a hand blown glass form filled with swarovski crystals. The mixture of glass with the play of crystals creates this magnificent illumination. The thing is do we consider this a luxury because it contains 70+ crystals within its simple form? Also each one of these forms are hand blown. This means that someone hand made the light just form the client. The process alone makes these unique fashionable elements a luxury.