Mosaic-style Art Nouveau lamps by Tiffany Studios cost roughly the same as a Birkin on a good day – and well over a million at auction on a bad one. You might recognize them from the American Wing at the Met, or from the New-York Historical Society’s formidable collection. Created around 1895 by stained-glass obsessive Louis Comfort Tiffany, this vintage lighting style feels strangely salient again in 2026 – a reflex, perhaps, against a snooze-worthy decade of colorless minimalism.
This new (old?) vintage trend and fixture-fixation crystallized for me recently at the Winter Show, the long-running American art and antiques fair held each year at the Park Avenue Armory.
