Sideboards
19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1890s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Mahogany, Maple
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s Victorian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
19th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Pearwood
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Cedar
1880s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Hungarian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1890s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Fruitwood, Oak
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Cedar
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
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.