French Directoire Style Sideboard
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Directoire Sideboards
Wood
Antique 1840s French Directoire Serving Tables
Marble, Ormolu
Mid-20th Century Argentine Directoire Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Antique 1890s French Directoire Sideboards
Bronze
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1920s French Directoire Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
2010s French Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1890s French Directoire Buffets
Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Directoire Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
2010s French Neoclassical Cabinets
Cherry, Oak
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Cherry
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
2010s French Neoclassical Buffets
Oak, Cherry
2010s European Neoclassical Sideboards
Cherry, Oak
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Console Tables
Marble, Iron
Vintage 1940s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
2010s French Louis XVI Buffets
Wood, Cherry, Oak
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Antique 1820s French Louis XV Buffets
Cherry
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Bronze, Ormolu
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Marble, Brass
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Brass
Antique 19th Century French Sideboards
Marble, Brass
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Oak
Antique 1840s French Directoire Side Tables
Marble, Ormolu
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Mahogany
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Brass
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Walnut
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Wood
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Oak
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Antique 19th Century French Console Tables
Marble
Antique 19th Century French Sideboards
Antique Late 19th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Fruitwood
Vintage 1940s French Directoire Sideboards
Vintage 1940s French Hollywood Regency Cabinets
Vintage 1940s Argentine Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1930s French Directoire Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 19th Century French Directoire Buffets
Mahogany
20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century French Directoire Buffets
Antique Late 19th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Bronze
Antique 19th Century French Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 19th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century French Sideboards
Antique 1880s French Directoire Buffets
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
Vintage 1910s French Directoire Buffets
Brass
20th Century American Directoire Serving Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s American Directoire Buffets
Bronze
Early 2000s French Directoire Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble
Antique Early 1900s French Directoire Buffets
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Wire
Vintage 1960s French Directoire Buffets
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Directoire Buffets
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century French Directoire Buffets
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Cabinets
Vintage 1950s French Directoire Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Walnut
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Vintage 1920s French Directoire Buffets
Walnut
Vintage 1950s French Directoire Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 2000s Unknown Directoire Credenzas
Walnut
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Buffets
Marble
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
Antique 1880s French Sideboards
Antique 1880s French Empire Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
Antique 18th Century French Louis XIV Antiquities
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1950s French Directoire Buffets
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Nickel
Vintage 1940s Belgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Antique 19th Century French Directoire Credenzas
Antique 1850s French Directoire Sideboards
Marble, Brass
20th Century French Directoire Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Mid-20th Century American Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Directoire Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1930s French Louis XVI Sideboards
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
Vintage 1950s French Art Deco Buffets
Sycamore
Vintage 1960s American Directoire Sideboards
Paint, Wood
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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.
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