Serpentine Front Sideboard
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century British George III Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
Antique Mid-19th Century Danish Rococo Revival Sideboards
Oak, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
Mahogany
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Antique 1860s English High Victorian Sideboards
Marble
Antique 1840s Danish Neoclassical Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany, Oak
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century North American Renaissance Buffets
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Antique Mid-19th Century Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Other
Antique Late 19th Century Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Antique Late 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Sideboards
Oak
Antique Early 1800s English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Early 1900s English Sideboards
Other
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Antique Early 19th Century French Buffets
Wood, Paint
Antique 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Other
Antique 1790s American American Colonial Sideboards
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century English George III Sideboards
Brass, Other
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Sideboards
Brass
Antique Mid-19th Century European Victorian Credenzas
Marble
Antique Late 18th Century British George III Sideboards
Brass
Antique 19th Century English Hepplewhite Buffets
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Antique 19th Century English Louis XV Sideboards
Brass
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Early 19th Century English Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Brass
Late 20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Regency Buffets
Wood
Late 20th Century North American Renaissance Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Early 1800s Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique Early 1900s Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Buffets
Marble
Vintage 1960s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Belgian Cabinets
Walnut
Vintage 1910s Scottish Sideboards
Oak
Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Credenzas
Marble, Brass, Iron
Antique 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Chinoiserie Cabinets
Marble
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Sideboards
Glass, Walnut, Burl
Antique Late 18th Century English Sheraton Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 18th Century Italian Credenzas
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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