Antique Collectors of a Younger Vintage

Fine Objects Society, a members’ club, doesn’t want to be dusty.

By Emma Orlow

Nov. 26, 2025

“They are the kind of people who watch ‘Antiques Roadshow’ to wind down. They scour auction houses, estate sales and antiques malls as if it were a sport. They can tell you exactly what decade their antique chair is from and what it’s probably worth. But it is the observing — not the buying — that connects them.”