Criticism of people, customs or institutions through ridicule, exaggeration or irony.
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich
In truth, it was exactly what one finds in the homes of all people who are not very rich, but who want to look like the rich, and so only look like one another.
The sentence mocks those who furnish a house to "look like the rich." The ridicule falls on a whole class, that of identical houses, and not only on Ivan Ilyich, who thinks his own is unique.