Large Sideboards Servers
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 1890s English Sideboards
Brass, Steel
Antique 1870s English Sideboards
Oak
Antique 18th Century European Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Fruitwood, Oak
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Sideboards
Aluminum
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Antique 19th Century French Renaissance Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1920s American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Marble
Antique Mid-19th Century Irish Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1980s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Maple, Satinwood
Antique Late 19th Century English George III Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century English George II Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Brass
Antique Mid-19th Century English Late Victorian Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Louis XV Sideboards
Fruitwood
Antique Early 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Leather, Oak
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany, Rosewood
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Buffets
Ash
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Antique Late 18th Century English George III Side Tables
Ebony, Mahogany
20th Century Modern Console Tables
Crystal, Chrome
Antique 1890s English Cabinets
Pine
Antique 1870s Swedish Brutalist Shelves
Pine
Antique 19th Century British Georgian Wardrobes and Armoires
Mahogany
Antique 1880s Victorian Shelves
Pine
Antique 1850s English Buffets
Pine
20th Century American Campaign Buffets
Copper
Vintage 1950s English Renaissance Beds and Bed Frames
Oak
Vintage 1920s English Jacobean Dressers
Oak
Antique 1850s English Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
Vintage 1970s American Campaign Buffets
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Regency Console Tables
Wood
Vintage 1970s North American Chinoiserie Cabinets
Mahogany
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Cabinets
Pine
2010s Chippendale Console Tables
Mahogany
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Vintage 1970s American Sideboards
Chrome
Antique Early 1800s British Hepplewhite Sideboards
Satinwood
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Sideboards
Wood
Antique 19th Century American American Classical Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 1820s American American Classical Sideboards
Marble
Antique 1820s English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Vintage 1920s Sideboards
Antique 19th Century Mongolian Sideboards
Elm, Lacquer
Antique 19th Century English Sideboards
Vintage 1960s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1990s American Sheraton Sideboards
Mahogany
Vintage 1940s American Regency Sideboards
Wood
Antique 19th Century Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Felt, Wood, Teak
Antique 19th Century Scottish Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary European Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 18th Century English Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century European Renaissance Sideboards
Pine
Antique Late 19th Century Danish Gustavian Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Antique 19th Century Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century English Sideboards
Ormolu
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Antique 18th Century British George III Sideboards
Oak, Mahogany
20th Century American British Colonial Sideboards
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Vintage 1960s American Neoclassical Revival Sideboards
Brass
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Sideboards
Cherry
Early 20th Century Scottish Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century American French Provincial Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Country Sideboards
Brass, Metal
Antique 19th Century French Country Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Antique 1840s Sideboards
Abalone, Mahogany
Antique Early 19th Century English Sideboards
Pine
20th Century North American Rustic Sideboards
Pine
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century American Sideboards
Vintage 1930s French Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
Vintage 1930s British Colonial Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
20th Century American Sideboards
Walnut
Antique 1880s Italian Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Sideboards
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
Vintage 1920s English Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1890s French Renaissance Sideboards
Oak
Antique Late 18th Century French Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1890s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1870s French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century French Renaissance Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American Empire Sideboards
Cherry
Antique 1890s French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century English Sideboards
Brass
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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 ExpertNovember 2, 2021The difference between a sideboard and a server mostly pertains to usage. A sideboard is a side-table with cabinet doors that is used for serving, most often in a dining room (today, sideboards can sometimes be found in living rooms and foyers). In form, a credenza has much in common with a sideboard. Sideboards have short legs or no legs at all. A server is very slim and is meant to be placed along the dining room wall. It is shorter and takes up less room than a sideboard and is also considered to be more formal than a sideboard — a sideboard might offer a surface to serve dinner, whereas a server might best be used to serve dessert. Shop a collection of antique, vintage, and contemporary sideboards and servers from some of the world’s top dealers on 1stDibs.
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