BEDROOM
The bedroom rewards softer vintage moves than the living room can. A cane or rattan headboard is one of the easiest ways to bring vintage warmth into a space that already has too much hard furniture. Vintage rattan from the 1970s comes in shapes a contemporary copy rarely matches: peacock chairs, fan headboards, scalloped shapes that read as woven sculpture. Paired with crisp white linens, a cane headboard looks current and quietly historic at the same time. An antique mirror, particularly one with foxed glass, makes a strong case for itself in a bedroom. The clouded spots that develop in old silvered backings catch the light in ways a perfect new mirror cannot. A heavy gilt or carved wood frame from a flea market, with the glass left alone in its imperfect state, hung above a dresser or leaning against the wall behind a vanity, gives a bedroom an immediate sense of age without any other intervention. A marble-topped nightstand, ideally a small Victorian washstand or French bedside cabinet with a veined white or pink marble top, has become a quiet favorite in design circles in recent years. Marble doesn’t show wear the way wood does, which means a hundred-year-old marble top still looks composed against modern bedding. The wrought iron or carved wood base reads as character. The proportions, often narrower and taller than modern nightstands, fit smaller bedrooms better than bulky contemporary
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