Victorian Buffets And Sideboards With Mirrors
Early 20th Century Victorian Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Vintage 1930s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century Victorian Sideboards
Oak
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Antique Early 1800s German George III Wardrobes and Armoires
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Antique 19th Century Renaissance Revival Wardrobes and Armoires
Oak
Antique 1890s Scottish Cabinets
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Vintage 1920s Scottish Bookcases
Walnut
Antique 19th Century Gothic Cabinets
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century French Black Forest Bookcases
Oak
Antique 19th Century English Gothic Cupboards
Pine
Antique 19th Century English Wardrobes and Armoires
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Cupboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century French Gothic Dining Room Sets
Wood, Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century British Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century French Buffets
Oak
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Bookcases
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century English Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Mahogany, Glass
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Cabinets
Oak
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Antique Late 19th Century American Victorian Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Early 20th Century American Victorian Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Antique 1890s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1890s Scottish Late Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1860s English Victorian Sideboards
Mahogany
Antique 1870s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1870s Scottish Late Victorian Sideboards
Oak
Antique 1890s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Antique 1870s Scottish Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
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.