Biedermeier Dining Room Sideboard
Antique Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Sideboards
Cherry
Antique 19th Century Swedish Biedermeier Sideboards
Satin, Birch, Maple
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Biedermeier Sideboards
Sapele Wood
Antique 1830s German Biedermeier Sideboards
Cherry
Antique Early 19th Century Swiss Biedermeier Sideboards
Cherry, Spruce
Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Buffets
Brass
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Biedermeier Buffets
Walnut, Burl
Antique Mid-19th Century Biedermeier Sideboards
Antique Early 19th Century Baltic Biedermeier Commodes and Chests of Dra...
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
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Antique 1890s French Louis XV Cabinets
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Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Credenzas
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
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Birch, Grasscloth
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Gueridon
Bronze
Antique 1890s French Shelves
Cherry
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Burl
Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Buffets
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Antique 1850s German Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Antique 1860s German Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century Swedish Edwardian Sideboards
Walnut
Vintage 1980s European Biedermeier Sideboards
Wood
Antique Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Sideboards
Cherry
Antique 1840s Austrian Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Biedermeier Sideboards
Antique 19th Century Buffets
Antique 1820s German Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Antique Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Vintage 1980s North American Biedermeier Sideboards
Wood
Antique Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1880s French Sideboards
Antique 1880s French Empire Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
20th Century French Console Tables
20th Century European Vitrines
Glass, Wood
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Cabinets
Metal, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Oak
Antique 1890s Austrian Biedermeier Sideboards
Cherry
Antique Late 19th Century European Biedermeier Console Tables
Wood
Late 20th Century American Biedermeier Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1970s American Biedermeier Sideboards
Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
Antique 19th Century Danish Biedermeier Sideboards
Birch
20th Century American Biedermeier Buffets
Early 20th Century French Biedermeier Sideboards
Birch
Early 20th Century Danish Biedermeier Sideboards
Birch
Antique 19th Century German Biedermeier Console Tables
Mahogany
Antique 1890s Swedish Biedermeier Sideboards
Birch
Antique 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Sideboards
Walnut
Antique 19th Century Sideboards
Antique Mid-19th Century French Biedermeier Sideboards
Antique Late 19th Century Swedish Biedermeier Sideboards
Birch, Satinwood
Antique Mid-19th Century French Biedermeier Sideboards
20th Century French Buffets
Marble, Brass
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Amboyna
Vintage 1930s Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Marble
Vintage 1940s Swedish Biedermeier Buffets
Antique Early 1900s French Biedermeier Sideboards
Lacquer
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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.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 22, 2024How long a sideboard should be in a dining room depends on the size of the space and the dimensions of the accompanying dining table. Generally, a dining table should be larger than a sideboard to ensure a balanced look. You also want to ensure that there is at least 24 inches of space between the sideboard and other furnishings to provide enough clearance for walking. On 1stDibs, explore a variety of sideboards.
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