Isn't it just? I like that it wasn't enough for it to be rare (which it was) and laborious to produce (which it was), but also that it had unusual and very pra

Isn't it just? I like that it wasn't enough for it to be rare (which it was) and laborious to produce (which it was), but also that it had unusual and very practical properties. It seems as if today, mainly due to marketing, luxury goods get away with just being rare (even if artificially), or just being laborious to produce (e.g. the old (false) notion that "a Rolls Royce is completely hand-made").