Travel Bar

The Luxury & Degradation series by Jeff Koons initially associated objects depicting the leisure activities of the American proletariat set in stainless steel and fake luxury, with stereotypical period advertising images of alcoholic beverages.

For Jeff Koons, this Travel Bar is a childhood memory coming from a similar item which his parents owned. "In Luxury and Degradation, the objects are given an artificial luxury, an artificial value, which transforms them completely, changing their function, and, to a certain extent, "decriticalizing" them. My surface is very much a false front for an undergoing dragradation," writes the artist.