Vintage and antique furniture made up 36% of everything professional interior designers sourced for their projects in 2025 — the highest share in five years — according to a new survey commissioned by online marketplace 1stDibs.

Key Points

• On average, 36% of everything designers sourced for client projects in 2025 was vintage or antique, the highest proportion 1stDibs has recorded since 2021.
• 85% of designers surveyed used at least one vintage piece — furniture made between the 1920s and 2000s — in a 2025 project, the strongest vintage usage the survey has tracked in five years.
• 63% of respondents incorporated genuine antiques, meaning pieces made before 1920, up from 56% who said the same in the 2024 edition of the survey.
• The results come from 468 interior design professionals in 1stDibs’ Trade 1st Program, surveyed online by independent research firm Surveys & Forecasts LLC between July and August 2025.

The uptick reverses a run of leaner years for period furniture in professional design work and lands alongside a broader swing toward maximalist, layered interiors. “Designers are embracing the future by adopting AI tools for efficiency while also looking back to vintage and antique furniture for inspiration and quality craftsmanship,” said Anthony Barzilay Freund, 1stDibs’ editorial director, in the announcement of the survey results.

The jump in antique sourcing specifically — from 56% to 63% of designers in a single year — is notable because pre-1920s pieces require more specialized knowledge to source, authenticate and price than mid-century vintage, which has flooded the resale market for a decade. That designers are reaching further back suggests the vintage wave has outgrown its mid-century-modern phase and is pulling in Georgian, Victorian and Art Deco pieces alongside it, a shift corroborated in wire coverage of the same data.

The survey also found vintage sourcing rising alongside two other 2026 priorities the same designers named: a swing toward richer, more saturated color palettes and continued adoption of AI tools for project logistics, according to the full results distributed alongside the release. Rather than competing trends, 1stDibs frames vintage and AI as running in parallel — one shaping how a room looks, the other shaping how quickly a designer can source it.

For a category that spent years being treated as a nostalgic accent rather than a real sourcing strategy, that shift matters. When more than a third of everything going into finished client rooms is now old rather than new, it changes what dealers stock, what estate sales command, and what a client should expect to pay when their designer proposes an original piece instead of a reproduction. Five years ago, during the pandemic-era home renovation boom, vintage sourcing hit a previous high before cooling; 2025’s number is the first time it has climbed back to match that earlier peak.