Sideboards
2010s French Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
2010s French Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Chestnut
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
Early 2000s Irish Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
2010s French Sideboards
Cherry
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Chestnut
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Iron
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1720s Welsh Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s French Sideboards
Walnut
2010s American American Classical Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
20th Century Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Victorian Sideboards
Pine
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 18th Century Welsh Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s French Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Chestnut
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
Antique, New and Vintage Sideboards
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.