If you asked a fashionable product designer to create a stylish travel trailer, it’s a fair bet they would struggle a little with the brief.

Although recreational-vehicle ownership, boosted by the coronavirus years, is at a record high—11.2 million American households have a trailer, motor home, or camper—in the bars of downtown New York, over lunch at the Polo Lounge, and in fashionable haunts in Silicon Valley and Georgetown, talk among cosmopolitan elites rarely turns to R.V.-ing.