Old Antique Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century American Rustic Old Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s French French Provincial Old Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Late 19th Century French Country Old Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century French Other Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
1890s French French Provincial Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French French Provincial Old Antique Sideboards
Marble
1920s Old Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Italian Old Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Early 20th Century English Georgian Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Old Antique Sideboards
Oak
1830s English William IV Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Japanese Old Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
19th Century English Queen Anne Old Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Italian Country Old Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
18th Century British Georgian Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century European George II Old Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s English High Victorian Old Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Old Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
19th Century English George III Old Antique Sideboards
Brass
1860s British Victorian Old Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century American Hepplewhite Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
1820s American Federal Old Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century European Renaissance Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Old Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 18th Century British George I Old Antique Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
Early 19th Century English George III Old Antique Sideboards
Brass
1860s English High Victorian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Old Antique Sideboards
Iron
18th Century Old Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century English Victorian Old Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 19th Century British Victorian Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Elm, Fabric
19th Century English Old Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Arts and Crafts Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s Italian Old Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century European Renaissance Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Dutch Art Deco Old Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Oak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English George III Old Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Early 20th Century Jacobean Old Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine
1830s English William IV Old Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
18th Century French Louis XV Old Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Old Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Old Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 1900s Italian Neoclassical Revival Old Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Fir
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Old Antique 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.
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