Sideboards
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
1770s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Glass, Oak
1880s French High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Asian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble
1870s American Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Leather, Oak
1880s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Chinese Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
1890s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Belgian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s French Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Glass, Satinwood, Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1870s Belgian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1870s French Neoclassical Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 1800s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s French Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1880s English Campaign Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Brass, Steel
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
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.