Baker English Sideboard
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1980s Hepplewhite Buffets
Mahogany, Tulipwood
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Sideboards
Brass
20th Century English Regency Cabinets
Brass
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Early 20th Century Buffets
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Mahogany
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Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
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Mid-20th Century American Regency Sideboards
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20th Century American American Classical Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
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Antique 1850s English George III Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
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Late 20th Century American Country Sideboards
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Late 20th Century Regency Credenzas
Satinwood
American Credenzas
Brass
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1980s American Sheraton Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Buffets
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Buffets
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Georgian Cabinets
Mahogany, Satinwood
1990s American Hepplewhite Buffets
Mahogany
Vintage 1980s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Industrial and Work Tables
Sycamore, Pine
Mid-20th Century English Industrial Industrial and Work Tables
Beech, Pine
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.