Sideboards
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak, Mahogany
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Belgian Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Amboyna
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
18th Century Slovak Rococo Antique Sideboards
Gold Plate
Late 18th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
1910s Federal Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Gold Leaf
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Cherry, Mahogany
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century European George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
1910s American Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s American Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
Early 20th Century Czech Bauhaus Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Central American Empire Revival Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Campaign Sideboards
Brass
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian 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.