Don’t Tell Your Minimalist Furniture – Martha Stewart’s Victorian-Style Lamp At TJ Maxx Is What Vintage Lovers Are Quietly Coveting
With delicate porcelain and ruffled glass, this antique-inspired find introduces heritage charm – for under $50
If I had my dream home, every single piece would be vintage, sourced from an off-the-beaten-path flea market or antiques market. Of course, this isn't possible with my (or most people's) busy schedule. That's where Martha Stewart's ceramic table lamp for T.J. Maxx comes in.
No, it's not true vintage, but it really looks like it. Martha Stewart's most recent light has a fluted glass top and transferware ceramic base, all set in beautiful brass hardware. Though it might be modern, when it looks this good yet can be shipped directly to my house and costs under $50, I'm not complaining.
I'm not the only way who feels this way about Martha's lighting idea. 'I've written about hundreds of lamps this year alone, but this piece stopped me in my tracks,' comments Megan Slack, the Head of Celebrity Style at Homes & Gardens. 'The 19th-century oil lamp silhouette is notoriously hard to modernize, yet Martha executed it with such restraint.'
Megan jokes: 'By marrying that historic shape with classic blue-and-white chinoiserie, she created something that feels like an inherited heirloom rather than from TJ Maxx. But your secret is safe with us.'
Shop More Vintage-Inspired Lamps by Martha Stewart
Perhaps transfer-ware inspired ceramic isn't your thing. Never fear. Martha Stewart has designed a vintage-inspired lamp to fit every taste. Here are just a few of our favorites.
Inspired by vintage banker's lamps, this gorgeous piece comes in Martha's signature jade green color. Its intricate chinoiserie design and rectangular shape add a cozy Art Deco sensibility.
Unapologetically fun, playful, and kitschy, this Martha-designed lamp combines the best of the Amalfi Coast with a granny-chic shade. Complete with ruffles, it would look completely at home on a vintage wicker table, or a more modern glass sideboard.
With its single bands of blue and cream shade, this gorgeous lamp is sure to spark conversation. The brass and ceramic materials make it feel heritage but contemporary at the same time.
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Sophie is a writer and News Editor on the Celebrity Style team at Homes & Gardens. She is fascinated by the intersection of design and popular culture and is particularly passionate about researching trends and interior history. She is an avid pop culture fan and has interviewed Martha Stewart and Hillary Duff.
In her free time, Sophie freelances on design news for Westport Magazine and Livingetc. She also has a newsletter, My Friend's Art, in which she covers music, culture, and fine art through a personal lens. Her fiction has appeared in Love & Squalor and The Isis Magazine.
Before joining Future, Sophie worked in editorial at Fig Linens and Home, a boutique luxury linens brand. She has an MSc from Oxford University and a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology from Sarah Lawrence College.