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

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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.'

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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.


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Sophie Edwards
News Editor

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.