Sideboards
1990s American Brutalist Sideboards
Metal, Cut Steel
Late 19th Century Chinese Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Sideboards
Wood
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Irish George IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
1880s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1990s American Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1990s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
Early 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Leather, Oak
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1990s American Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1880s American High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Metal, Brass
19th Century Meiji Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 19th Century Asian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s Austrian Baroque Revival Antique Sideboards
Ash, Fruitwood, Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble
1890s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Philippine British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Other
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.