Many children grow up with family snapshots on their walls. Lacey Tisch grew up looking at a series of four portraits of her mother by none other than Andy Warhol.
The daughter of Susan Tisch Allen and Andrew Tisch, the co-chairman of the board at Loews Corporation, Lacey has collecting in her blood. But it took encounters with two very different works of art—Paul Downs’s gleaming Swarovski-adorned mixed-media work Chanel Number 5 and a print of Ansel Adams’s black-and-white photograph Snow Oak Silence—to inspire her to build a collection of her own.
Tisch is the co-founder of wellness company Sage + Sound, an Upper East Side destination offering lymphatic massages, non-toxic nail care, classes, and more. Her dedication to health and well-being dovetails seamlessly with her collecting philosophy. The entrepreneur has always been drawn “to things that make me feel a lightness,” she says. “I choose art that makes me feel a certain way, that is reflective of the work I do.”
Tisch sees the pieces she has acquired over the years as the embodiment of her personal evolution. With an approach to collecting that’s both intuitive and joyful, she remains fascinated by “how art represents a moment in time.” She is speaking with me from her New York residence, one of the two homes for a collection that toys with texture, pattern, reflection, and transparency. (Tisch splits her time between Manhattan and the Hamptons.)
Here, the Los Angeles–based artist Mungo Thomson’s Person of the Year, a mirrored composition based on the famous Time magazine cover, shares space with an atmospheric photograph by the American artist James Welling of Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House. Other treasures include a commissioned work from the Italian artist Paola Pivi’s “Pearls” series and the dot-filled Alchimie 390 by Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc.
Tisch describes her East End abode, where she keeps work by Daniel Arsham and a collaborative chair by the Campana Brothers and KAWS, as “more fun and kitschy … it’s where we feel more laid-back.” Travel adds another dimension to Tisch’s collection. Everywhere she visits, from small islands to major cities, she buys something to commemorate the trip.
Her most recent acquisition was L’incubo di Kubrick by Damiano Spelta from Rossana Orlandi’s eponymous gallery in Milan. Up next are excursions to Singapore, the Maldives, and Dublin, which will likely lead to even more intriguing encounters that find their way into Tisch’s constellation of a collection.
For more from the 2024 Young Collectors list, read conversations with Daniel English, Noora Raj Brown, and Jen Rubio.
