Hermès

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It is either more pleasing to you intrinsically for the feeling, or it's an extrinsic signal where you are signaling to others that you have the means to spend on this item even though it doesn't provide more utility. It's a sort of despite rather than a because. But art, it does fall on this spectrum. Art is like luxury taken to its logical extreme. It has actually zero utility.