BH | Studio Étretat Curved 5-Drawer Tall Dresser

The curved drawer front is a French idea. Eighteenth-century cabinetmakers in France shaped their commodes into soft serpentine waves, and English Georgian makers soon borrowed the line for their own chests of drawers. Carried up a tall chest, which stacks clothes upward on a modest footprint, that gentle curve recalls the sweeping chalk cliffs of the Normandy coast.

This one stands just under fifty inches high with five deep drawers, one above the other, each front following a soft wave that is echoed in the shaped plinth at its base. The fronts are free of handles, so the grain runs uninterrupted from top to bottom. There is room for folded sweaters, jeans, pajamas, bed linen and the overflow from a closet, and the slim width means it fits where a wide dresser will not, such as a recess or the wall between two windows. It is made of engineered wood with a smooth wood-grain laminate in Almond or Hazel. Assembly is required.

Use it as the main dresser in a small bedroom, as a chest inside a walk-in closet, or as extra storage in a hall or a guest room for towels and spare bedding. Top it with a small lamp and a dish for rings, with a round mirror above. It suits a quiet scheme: pair it with white walls, a cream bouclé chair, linen curtains and pale oak floors for a calm, gallery-like bedroom. This listing is for one chest of drawers.