Sideboards
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
1980s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Glass, Birdseye Maple
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Bone, Elm, Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Satinwood
Early 1800s English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood, Tulipwood
1820s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
1810s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Burl, Lacquer
Early 19th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Elm, Oak
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Wenge
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Burl, Lacquer
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Bone, Rosewood
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.