We could have speculated all day about what this antique corner cabinet might have been in a previous life, before we picked it up at a show in Paris. Between the mix of new wood and old in both the frame and joinery, and three different colored finishes worn clean down to the original wood (like a portal to the past), it was clear it had been repurposed quite a few times. Our bedroom designer keyed in on some of the more visually interesting details—the botanical carving like intricate whorled florals and the scalloped leafs, the large, deep, shield carving with all the stately bearing of a coat of arms—and he carried these over into the Newport Bedroom Collection.