Bow Front Sideboard
Antique 19th Century Indian Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 18th Century English Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Mid-19th Century English Sheraton Sideboards
Mahogany, Paint
20th Century Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1810s American American Colonial Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Antique Early 19th Century George III Side Tables
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Other
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Other
Antique Early 1900s English Sideboards
Other
Antique 19th Century English Hepplewhite Buffets
Brass
Antique 1810s American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Walnut
Antique 19th Century British Regency Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
20th Century Swedish Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
Antique 18th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century Hepplewhite Sideboards
Oak, Paint, Mahogany
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1980s Hepplewhite Buffets
Mahogany, Tulipwood
Vintage 1940s American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Federal Credenzas
Mahogany
Antique 1790s English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1880s Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 1780s English George III Sideboards
Brass
Antique Early 1800s English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1780s English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1770s American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1870s English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 18th Century English Sheraton Side Tables
Mahogany
Antique 19th Century Great Britain (UK) Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Late 19th Century English Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
Vintage 1950s English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1780s English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Antique Early 1900s English Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century American Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1770s English Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Edwardian Sideboards
Brass, Other
Vintage 1920s Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Serving Tables
Brass
Vintage 1930s Queen Anne Side Tables
Wood, Walnut
Antique 1880s Sheraton Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
Vintage 1980s American Georgian Sideboards
Wood
Antique 1780s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Sheraton Sideboards
Brass
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Bookcases
Glass, Mahogany, Satinwood
Antique Early 1900s American Sheraton Buffets
Satinwood
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Italian Adam Style Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Mahogany, Satinwood, Burl
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Birch
Antique Early 1800s English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century Georgian Dressers
Walnut
Antique 1780s Regency Sideboards
Elm
20th Century English Art Deco Bedroom Sets
Birch, Oak
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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.
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