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"Before there was day-of-the-week underwear, there was the semainier. Popularized in 18th-century France, these seven-drawer dressers (the name comes from the French word for week, semaine) were intended to separate the copious personal linens of the time into Monday-through-Sunday supplies. Take note, however: The form has outlived the function. &amp;quot;Gone are the days of bustiers and corsets,&amp;quot; says New Jersey\u2013based designer Jennifer Watty with a laugh. &amp;quot;This is the age of the thong. Who needs seven drawers for their underwear?&amp;quot; Semainiers can accommodate any number of storage needs in nearly any room, actually. Fill the shallow drawers with tableware, office supplies, or other small items you need within easy reach. And their narrow profiles allow them to fit neatly into very small rooms. (For a bold statement that ramps up the available space, Darryl Carter, a designer based in Washington, D.C., suggests deploying more than one.) However you choose to put a semainier to work, the styles\u2014ranging from industrial-strength to neo-Baroque\u2014are infinitely useful, as the designers discover in ELLE DECOR&amp;#039;s selection of the ten best. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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