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Fifteen years ago, Facebook and the iPhone had just been born, Instagram didn’t exist, plastic cutlery had yet to be banned, French luxury hadn’t yet conquered all of Asia, planned obsolescence was not a topic of conversation, and buying second-hand goods was seen as a concession to an uncertain future willingly faced by very few. In other words, the past fifteen years have seen a complete redefinition, in the West, of what we see, of what we know and of what we expect from objects. The latter have been miniaturized, technologized, multi-functionalized and virtualized; at the same time, we …