Antique Gustavian Sideboard
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
1920s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Berlin Iron
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Iron, Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood, Paint
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
1920s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
1810s Swedish Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
19th Century Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
Mid-18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
1850s Swedish Rustic Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Bronze
1850s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Metal, Chrome
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine, Paint
1770s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood, Paint
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Metal, Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Pine
1910s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
1850s Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Gustavian Sideboard
Wood
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Antique Gustavian Sideboard For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Antique Gustavian Sideboard?
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
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.