48 Inch Wide Sideboards
Antique 19th Century German Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century Swedish Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century Swedish Sideboards
Pine
Antique 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Oak
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1880s English High Victorian Sideboards
Bronze
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1930s French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble
Antique 1790s French Directoire Sideboards
Mahogany
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21st Century and Contemporary English Buffets
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Antique 1830s English Sideboards
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2010s Belgian Modern Club Chairs
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21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
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Antique 18th Century Italian Sideboards
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2010s Belgian Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Sofas
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Antique 19th Century English George IV Dressers
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Antique Early 19th Century Italian Sideboards
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Buffets
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Antique 19th Century British Sheraton Sideboards
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Antique 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Pine
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Pine
Antique 18th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century English William IV Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English George III Sideboards
Pine
Antique 18th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 18th Century English Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century Italian Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century French Sideboards
Elm
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century French Early Victorian Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English George III Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century Swedish Sideboards
Pine
Antique Early 19th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
20th Century English Sideboards
Pine
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
Vintage 1920s French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Walnut
48 Inch Wide Sideboards For Sale on 1stDibs
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Finding the Right sideboards for You
Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance since their modest first appearance. In Italy, the sideboard was basically a credenza, a solid furnishing with cabinet doors. It was initially intended as an integral piece of any dining room where the wealthy gathered for meals in the southern European country.
Later, in England and France, sideboards retained their utilitarian purpose — a place to keep hot water for rinsing silverware and from which to serve cold drinking water — but would evolve into double-bodied structures that allowed for the display of serveware and utensils on open shelves. We would likely call these buffets, as they’re taller than a sideboard. (Trust us — there is an order to all of this!)
The sideboard is often deemed a buffet in the United States, from the French buffet à deux corps, which referred to a storage and display case. However, a buffet technically possesses a tiered or shelved superstructure for displaying attractive kitchenware and certainly makes more sense in the context of buffet dining — abundant meals served for crowds of people.
An antique or vintage sideboard today is a sophisticated and stylish component in sumptuous dining rooms of every shape, size and decor scheme, as well as a statement of its own, showcased in art galleries and museums. Furniture maker and artist Paul Evans, whose work has been the subject of various celebrated museum exhibitions, created ornamented, welded and patinated sideboards for Directional Furniture, collections such as the Cityscape series that speak to his place in revolutionary brutalist furniture design as much as they echo the origins of these sturdy, functional structures centuries ago.
If mid-century modern sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays by Hepplewhite, the particularly elegant pieces crafted by designers Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley or Florence Knoll are often sought by today’s collectors.
Whether you have a specific era or style in mind or you’re open to browsing a vast collection to find the right fit, 1stDibs has a variety of antique, new and vintage sideboards to choose from.
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