Why Historical-Inspired Lighting Is Everywhere Right Now - Veranda

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A glowing new guard of historically inspired lighting reprises centuries of details and forms from 18th-century American to English Arts and Crafts.

Centuries-old lighting designs are shining brighter today than ever before. From 19th-century glass bell jar lanterns and nimble English task lamps to early American gilded sconces, this glowing new guard of historic-inspired fixtures reprises antique details and forms. Lighting designers are embracing the past for today’s designs, resurrecting sculptural accents and patinaed metalwork for compelling new pieces. Here, our favorite historic-inspired light fixtures back for an electrifying encore.

These photos were shot in the Dr. Oliver Bronson House, a National Historic Landmark tucked between the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains. This Hudson, New York, home was built in 1811–12 and renovated by architect Alexander Jackson Davis in the late 1830s.
Meg Braff Designs’ riff on 19th century bell jar lanterns includes the glass caps that originally prevented candle soot from staining the ceiling.
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Recalling the humble beauty of flickering tapers that once illuminated 18th-century American homes, the Ancram Double sconce celebrates the masterful handiwork of colonial metalworkers; forged iron arms extend from hand-hammered brass plating, easily holding a candle to their historic muses.
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Designer W.A.S. Benson’s decorative ambitions might have been fueled by the Arts and Crafts movement, but the Englishman didn’t shun technological wins of the day—especially if they helped amplify elegance. Case in point, his innovative elbow joints brought agility of form to lighting, reimagined today in Hector Finch’s lithe Aubrey desk lamps.
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In a boon for modern porticos, Vaughan’s Hawley lantern resurrects an 1830s antique, adapting its sublime details for outdoors. The original’s tapered fluting and sculptural finial return, as does fleur-de-lis-patterned fretwork that now repeats in double-banded detailing. A charming patinaed copper finish gives it aged gravitas inside or out.
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Intriguing tales of early American interiors are chronicled in three mesmerizing tributes: a tin-and-glass English Box wall lantern with a crowning gilded shell motif, based on a 1750 design found in Virginia; an Oval Mirror sconce with hand-cut mirror wedges, reminiscent of 18th- and 19th-century styles; and the Beech Leaf sconce with gilded foliage inspired by Boston’s Liberty Tree of 1776.
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Rescued from the ashes of World War II bombings, original London lanterns made their way to New Orleans’ French Quarter as battle-worn antiques. There, entrepreneur Andrew Bevolo, Sr., applied the same copper rivets from his wartime aviation work to revitalize the classic fixtures. Today they’re imagined in pure copper as the London Street Yoke lantern.
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