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This Gustavian sideboard features one drawer and two doors. On the drawers there are delicate carving in the shape of wreaths. On the doors are vertical cutters. The exterior is in a...

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19th century Swedish enfilade or sideboard with carved diamond four panelled doors. Lovely painted Swedish gray / white color. Terrific long narrow size. Ample storage with shelving ...

19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboard

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H 45 in W 48.5 in D 17.5 in

19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboard

Located in Charleston, SC

19th century Swedish Gustavian sideboard with classic Gustavian motifs; diamond shaped panelled doors on beautifully scallop-shaped apron.

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H 45.67 in W 44.89 in D 18.12 in

Swedish Early 19th Century Late Gustavian Sideboard

Located in Jesteburg, DE

In northern Sweden the Gustavian Style prevailed well into the 19th century, and this dates to circa 1810-1820.

19th Century Gustavian Sideboard

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H 44 in W 52.5 in D 16 in

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Located in Charleston, SC

Late period Gustavian sideboard with wonderful worn pale blue patina, reeded cabinet doors and tapered feet. Circa 1810

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Early 19th Century Gustavian Sideboard

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19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboard For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the 19th century Swedish gustavian sideboard you’re looking for. Each 19th century Swedish gustavian sideboard for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, softwood and pine. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect 19th century Swedish gustavian sideboard — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. Each 19th century Swedish gustavian sideboard bearing Empire hallmarks is very popular.

How Much is a 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboard?

A 19th century Swedish gustavian sideboard can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $5,949, while the lowest priced sells for $2,400 and the highest can go for as much as $18,000.

A Close Look at Gustavian Furniture

With clean lines and muted colors, antique Gustavian furniture is understated and elegant. It represents a more restrained version of the transition from Rococo to neoclassicism that was happening in France under Louis XVI. The style developed under Swedish King Gustav III, who reigned from 1771 until his assassination in 1792, and his son Gustav IV, who ruled until 1809. Although Gustavian furniture is mostly used to refer to pale painted cabinets, commodes, armchairs and other items, it involved a range of influences.

Gustavian-style furniture was inspired by discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum as well as the grandeur of European palaces like Versailles, with local softwoods such as pine and birch. There was also an emphasis on natural light; crystal chandeliers and large mirrors played a role in radiating the fleeting daylight of winter, giving it a distinctive aesthetic.

Where earlier furniture was curvy and florid, this new era was more architectural, with tapered and fluted legs and rectangular and oval shapes. Luminous gilt contrasted with the palette of soft blues on upholstery and painted surfaces. Leading furniture builders included Gottlieb Iwersson, Louis Masreliez and Erik Öhrmark. The latter, a French-born Swedish decorator, designed the Sulla chair, a seat that was demonstrative of technical skill and precise craftsmanship and drew on Greek klismos chairs. Masreliez’s Sulla chair was made by Öhrmark and featured decorative ornamentation produced by Jean-Baptiste Masreliez, Louis’s younger brother.

While the wealthy had furniture carved with neoclassical details like scallops and rosettes, more affordable options were adorned with faux finishes that mimicked marble and stenciled patterns. The simple elegance of Gustavian furniture would have a long impact on Swedish design, informing the 20th-century appreciation for function and form. In the 1950s, IKEA mass-produced copies of a Gustavian commode designed by cabinetmaker Georg Haupt, who created pieces for the Royal Palace, making the furniture a fixture of everyday Swedish life.

Find a collection of antique Gustavian seating, tables, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Sideboards for You

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.

Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance as case pieces 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.

Every imaginable iteration of the sideboard has taken shape over the years. 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 or vintage Danish sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays in the Hepplewhite style, 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 and vintage sideboards to choose from.