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Sideboards For Sale
Style: Louis XVI
Style: Baroque
Impressive Italian Baroque Walnut and Burl Walnut Commode
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over four graduated panelled drawers with original carved feet and applied carving to side of case. Original bronze handles.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Louis XVI Marble Top Sideboard with Inlaid Floral Details
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
This exquisite antique French Louis XVI sideboard is a stunning example of 18th-century craftsmanship. Featuring a thin marble top and inlaid floral details, this piece epitomizes the elegance and refinement of the Louis XVI period.
The sideboard is constructed from high-quality wood, likely mahogany or walnut, known for its durability and beautiful grain. The inlays are crafted from lighter woods, showcasing intricate marquetry that adds a sophisticated touch. With its straight lines, geometric forms, and turned legs, this sideboard exudes neoclassical charm.
The hardware, including locks and handles, is made from bronze or brass, adding a touch of opulence. Perfect for adding a touch of history and elegance to any space, this antique French Louis XVI marble top sideboard...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Brass
Italian 17th Century Walnut Credenza
Located in Troy, NY
Mid-size Italian credenza with a deep warm patina, the molded top with a dentil-decorated edge above two drawers with brass knobs, separated by decorative acanthus scrolls, two doors...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Louis XVI Style Wood Carved Sideboard
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th century Louis XVI style black painted wood carved gilt sideboard of elongated rectangular shape, with centered mirrored back flanked by two porcelain portrait plaques in a g...
Category
1860s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Porcelain, Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century Louis XVI Style Sideboard / Cabinet
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 19th century Louis XVI style ebonized fruitwood parquetry with inlaid porcelain and inserted guilloche gilt brass insert. The front of cabinet / sideboard has polychrome decora...
Category
1810s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Marble Top Display Buffet ~ Linen Press
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Marble Top Display Buffet ~ Linen Press combines many features and functions into one incredible piece! Crafted from fine French walnut, it feat...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany Marble-Top Buffet with Bronze Mounts
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany Marble Top Buffet with Gilt Bronze Mounts represents the essence of the classical style celebrated especially during the latter years of the 19th century into present times. This example, rendered from exotic imported mahogany, features the typical tailored architecture of the genre, with elaborately hand-cast bronze mounts to add a touch of opulence, from laurel garlands to acanthus rosettes to foliate reeds within the flutes of the cornerposts and pilasters. Three drawers add stylish functionality, while another special touch is the beveled glass on the center cabinet for display...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Maison Jansen Style, French Louis XVI, Monumental Commodes, Mahogany, Bronze
Located in Manhasset, NY
Pair of monumental Louis XVI style marble-top commodes in the Maison Jansen fashion. These impressive and finely constructed commodes or sideboards are simply stunning and leave noth...
Category
Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
18th Century Swedish Baroque Cupboard Sideboard
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A period style Baroque early 18th Century baroque cupboard in dark patinated pine wood. The clean and useful interior is of a later date and features two drawers that can be used for...
Category
Early 18th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Pine
French louis XVI -Style sideboard mahogany with gilt bronze mounts, white marble
Located in Houston, TX
Fine flame mahogany was used to build this beautiful piece with graceful
Curved sides. It has white marble top with light gray veins. The
Inside of one cabinet has built in drawers ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI-Style buffet/sideboard with white marble top
Located in Houston, TX
Louis XVI-Style sideboard made of fine crotch mahogany with a beautiful marble top in white. It has great storage with shelves inside this cabinet.
It has four doors that open wide f...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble
French Style Louis XVI Ebonized Mahogany Buffet by Old Plank Cabinetry Any Size
Located in Chicago, IL
Louis XVI style Ebonized mahogany Buffet, Handcrafted in our Old Plank cabinetry department here in Chicago. All the solid brass hardware is imported from Europe, and the Ebonized Fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Brass
Victor Raulin French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Sideboard
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) mahogany and bronze trimmed sideboard cabinet with 3 grill door and marble top. (signed VTOR RAULIN)
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian Baroque Console Table, circa 1730
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rectangular top above three incised carved drawers raised on baluster legs joined by stretchers.
Category
1730s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Commode by Jansen
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French mahogany marble-top Louis XVI style commode has been ebonized and finished with a museum quality. This lovely piece features pink and grey veined marble-top. The chest...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Brass
Louis XVI Console in Cherry Wood, 18th Century Stamped Lm Pluvinet
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb Louis XVI console from the18th century stamped LM Pluvinet
Very beautiful console resting on 4 columns. The console has a very beautiful ...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Cherry
Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany Marble Top Buffet with Bronze Mounts
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany Marble Top Buffet with Gilt Bronze Mounts represents the essence of the Classical style celebrated especially during the latter years of the 19th century into present times. This example, rendered from exotic imported mahogany, features the typical tailored architecture of the genre, with elaborately hand-cast bronze mounts to add a touch of opulence, from laurel garlands to acanthus rosettes to foliate reeds within the flutes of the cornerposts and pilasters. Three drawers add stylish functionality, while another special touch is the beveled glass on the center cabinet for display...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gold Dore' Bronze Maison Forest Green Marble Top French Buffet with Mirror
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
We have 2 pieces in this set listed separately. This listing is for the largest of the two.. All of them are the same and on is stamped "Maison Forest" and one of the best manufactur...
Category
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Antique 19th Century French Directoire Style Marble Top Cherrywood Sideboard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Expertly crafted in the Directoire style, this antique sideboard features a luxurious marble top and rich cherry wood. I believe this piece did not start life this way. The glass pan...
Category
Late 19th Century European Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Cherry
Louis XVI Style Black Lacquer and Gilt Brass Side Board with Carrara Marble Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Handsome Louis XVI style black lacquer sideboard with gilt brass details and a beautiful carrara marble top. Loads of storage and so elegant. Stunning!!
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Brass
19th Century Louis XVI Marble Top Walnut Display Buffet by Kint of Gand
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century Louis XVI marble top walnut display buffet by Kint of Gand is a stunning piece that will immediately command admiration from all who enter the room in which it is displayed! Hand-crafted by Edouard Kint, a fine furniture maker in the historic city of Ghent (called Gand in French), a city that originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It prospered primarily because of the rich, fertile soils surrounding the area. Evidence of habitation during the Stone Age has been found, and by the late 19th century it was a thriving European center with historical significance, producing such masterworks as this splendid buffet. Although it is almost six feet in width and over two feet in depth, its rounded sides soften the impact of its footprint on your floor plan, while simultaneously providing copious display, storage, and serving space in abundance! Crafted from hand-select walnut, it has been lavishly carved with intertwined foliates across the main facade in a step-front configuration, with rounded cornerposts carved with rosettes, egg form and laurel garlands atop reeded and fluted motifs providing a framework for the lush, artistic neoclassical carvings on the parquet-paneled doors. Urns in full relief are depicted amongst flowing ribbon, floral garlands and intertwined vines. Bronze key guards add a nice accent. On each side, recessed behind the aforementioned rounded cornerposts, are the display cabinets in a full quarter-round form, with fluting across the drawer that, with the bronze bale pull, pivots out on a single rear hinge. The rounded cabinet door below is fitted with a single curved pane of beveled glass, with quarter round shelving...
Category
1890s Belgian Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI style sideboard/buffet mahogany 19 th century
Located in Houston, TX
This French Louis XVI-Style sideboard has simple and elegant
Lines. The case has projecting squared front corners, gilt
Metal trim, two drawers , turned and fluted columns, framing
...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Mahogany
Baroque Style Polychrome and Giltwood Console with Faux Marble Top
Located in Dallas, TX
This unusual Baroque style console dates to the 19th century (see condition report) and has a fabulous overall shape. Originally from Germany, it was said to have come out of a theat...
Category
19th Century German Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Wood
Italian baroque chests of drawers in wood and metal, 1730-1740s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian baroque chests of drawers in wood and metal, 1730-1740s
Finely worked sideboard in light and dark wood. The sides and the front, where th...
Category
1730s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Metal
18th Century Country French Louis XVI Painted Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
Graceful 18th Century Country French Louis XVI Painted Buffet adds a lightness to the room while also providing a refined look with simple, ti...
Category
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Oak
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden. A stunning desk made during the Baroque period in Sweden. Veneered with elm and burl woo...
Category
18th Century European Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Painted Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century French Louis XVI painted buffet is a splendid example of the neoclassical revival of the late 1800s, all rendered from solid old-...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Brass
Pair of 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu Mounted Parquetry Cabinets.
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Louis XVI kingwood parquetry ormolu mounted cabinets
white marble top, over a pair of cupboard doors. French, circa 18th century
Measures: H 44 in.; W 51 in.; D 19 in.
P...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Louis XVI Console Desserte
Located in Essex, MA
Wonderful Louis XVI mahogany and marble top console desserte. Original marble and ormolu mounts. Cabinet door.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble
Antique Baroque Carved Wood Sideboard Cabinet
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Antique Baroque Carved Wood Sideboard Cabinet
This antique Baroque carved wood sideboard cabinet exemplifies the opulence and intricate craftsm...
Category
19th Century European Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Hardwood
20th Century, Louis XVI Style Meuble D'appui Credenza Sideboard
Located in Berlin, DE
Credenza / Meuble d'Appui after Joseph Stockel and Guillaume Benneman in the style of Louis XVI. Easily modified model according to a design by Joseph Stockel and Guillaume Benneman....
Category
20th Century Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Mahogany Sideboard in the Shabby Chic Style
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
This Shabby Chic sideboard is a restored piece of fine craftsmanship, blending elegance with a rustic charm. Originally made from high-quality mahogany, the furniture now has a distr...
Category
1910s Portuguese Baroque Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Mahogany and Bronze Side Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Handsome 19th century French Louis XVI style mahogany and bronze side table. The piece has very pretty hardware and a marble top. A great accent piece that adds an upscale look!
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Bronze
Large 19th century Spanish Baroque Catalan sideboard/table
Located in MIJDRECHT, NL
Nineteenth-century Catalan Baroque Spanish sideboard table, very well maintained.
The sideboard table can be converted in the blink of an eye into a dining table with two benches sec...
Category
19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Metal
Louis XVI Enfilade/sideboard
Located in Washington, DC
A Painted Louis XVI enfilade/sideboard
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Wood, Paint
Venetian Baroque Patchwork Burled Walnut Sideboard Buffet
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning grand Italian midcentury Venetian Baroque patchwork burlwood sideboard.
Exquisitely handcrafted of warm richly figured burled walnut, born in the Veneto region of North...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Sideboards
Materials
Glass, Walnut, Burl
Small Louis XVI Buffet or Sideboard in Natural Pine
Located in Washington, DC
A small Louis XVI buffet or sideboard in natural pine.
Category
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Mounted French Consoles
Located in London, GB
Pair of neoclassical style gilt bronze mounted French consoles
French, 19th century
Measures: Height 90cm, width 130cm, depth 51cm
This pair of consoles is crafted from gilt bro...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
18th Century French Louis XVI Dessert Server. Carrara Marble Top.
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Carrara Marble Top.
Brass Gallery.
Gorgeous piece, see photos.
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Carrara Marble
Signed Maison Jansen Verdi Green Marble Creme Painted Gilded Console Sideboard
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
For customers that require professional insured delivery we are proud to have teamed up with a nationwide professional delivery company that will assist with coordinating your delivery needs! They offer a reasonable flat-rate fee for delivery and set up to the ground floor of your home. They deliver to the vast majority of the lower 48 states. They offer a flat rate for most of our items with exclusions for the largest or most complex items such as breakfronts or crystal chandeliers or other items of greater complexity. For those items please ask for a shipping quote prior to purchase as these rates are different from our stated pricing. For those items please ask for a shipping quote prior to purchase. Most deliveries to the East Coast will be 295.00, to the mid-west and Southern mid-west 395.00. To the areas west of Kansas 495.00 and the farthest points to the West coast will be 595.00. Again, some areas we can't cover, however we can deliver to most of the lower 48 states so please inquire to be sure! Delivery times range from as fast as 1-4 weeks for the east coast to 5-9 weeks to the farthest areas of the west coast, sometimes longer and sometimes even shorter. If it is a time sensitive purchase, we may be able to accommodate you for a higher price. It is our goal to please each and every one of our customers with the highest standard of service possible. You must realize and accept that we are shipping antique, vintage and quality used furnishings to your home. We cannot control traffic, weather, and acts of God. There will be times when additional patience will be necessary
This is a signed (under the marble) Maison Jansen of Paris sideboard...
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1930s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Marble
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Period Carved Walnut Sideboard Credenza
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and exceptional Baroque period hand carved walnut sideboard (buffet - credenza) with beautifully aged patina. circa 1700
Hand-crafted in Italy, likely Florence or Bologna, in the early 18th century, possibly 17th century, featuring handsome rich antique walnut...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XVI Style Ebonized Sideboard
Located in Dallas, TX
20th century French Louis XVI style ebonized sideboard. Has a marble top, three drawers in top of side cabinet doors. Gilt metal mounds, tapered legs, and capped feet.
Category
20th Century Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Ebony
19th Century Italian Baroque / Florentine Carved Blackened Oak Hunt/ Sideboard
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Italian Baroque/FFlorentine Carved Blackened Oak Hunt/Sideboard
An exquisite 19th-century Italian Baroque/Florentine carved blackened oak hunt/sideboard is a masterwor...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Materials
Oak
Large Repainted Flemish Sideboard
Located in Cirencester, GB
This stunning oak sideboard is mid 19th Century, the style is Louis XVI - the paint is new.
Wonderful details throughout and having been fully restored - everything works as it sh...
Category
Mid-19th Century Belgian Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Oak
Antique French Louis XVI Walnut Marble Top Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French Louis XVI walnut marble top buffet will provide stately elegance to any room! Classical architecture inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans provides the casework de...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1960s Widdicomb Spanish Baroque Style Wood SideBoard Storage Cabinet
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning, sideboard storage cabinet you could hope to find. This is an ultra-rare opportunity to acquire what is, unequivocally, the best...
Category
1960s American Baroque Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Marble Marquetry Sideboard , Set of 2
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Indulge in the timeless elegance of this exquisite cabinets dating back to the 19tj Century. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this set showcases a stunning hand crafted f...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Brass
Louis XVI Style Console Table with Flip Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A very well made, solid feeling Console Table with the ability to double its size with a flip top feature. This table has large rectangular top over beautifully carved apron and two...
Category
20th Century Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted and Brass Inlaid Console Desserte, Late 18th Century
By C. Ceran
Located in Spencertown, NY
Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and brass inlaid console desserte, late 18th century, with inset white Carrara marble top and brass gallery above one long drawers supported by tapering flut...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Buffet with Gilt Bronze Mounts, Demilune Shape with Marble Top
Located in Houston, TX
Walnut buffet in walnut with gilt bronze mounts depicting a basket with
Floral and foliate designs and topped by a bow. A cream marble top
With shades of gray and is over two draw...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
Pair of Louis XVI Style Marble Top Mahogany Sideboards
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI Style bronze trimmed mahogany sideboards with curved mirrored side shelves and marble tops.
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Inlaid Sideboard
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) inlaid 2 door sideboard cabinet with bronze trim and white marble top.
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis Seize Sideboard with Marble Top, late 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Two-door sideboard with a slightly convex front and a beautiful original marble top in a dark grey color with lighter colored veins. The corpus is coffered on all sides and has decor...
Category
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble
19th Century Louis XVI Marble Top Walnut Display Buffet by Kint of Gand
Located in Dallas, TX
19th Century Louis XVI marble top walnut display buffet by Kint of Gand is a stunning piece that will immediately command admiration from all who enter the room in which it is displayed! Hand-crafted by Edouard Kint, a fine furniture maker in the historic city of Ghent (called Gand in French), a city that originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It prospered primarily because of the rich, fertile soils surrounding the area. Evidence of habitation during the Stone Age has been found, and by the late 19th century it was a thriving European center with historical significance, producing such masterworks as this splendid buffet. Although it is almost six feet in width and over two feet in depth, its rounded sides soften the impact of its footprint on your floor plan, while simultaneously providing copious display, storage, and serving space in abundance! Crafted from hand-select walnut, it has been lavishly carved with intertwined foliates across the main facade in a step-front configuration, with rounded cornerposts carved with rosettes, egg form and laurel garlands atop reeded and fluted motifs providing a framework for the lush, artistic neoclassical carvings on the parquet-paneled doors. Urns in full relief are depicted amongst flowing ribbon, floral garlands and intertwined vines. Bronze key guards add a nice accent. On each side, recessed behind the aforementioned rounded cornerposts, are the display cabinets in a full quarter-round form, with fluting across the drawer that, with the bronze bale pull, pivots out on a single rear hinge. The rounded cabinet door below is fitted with a single curved pane of beveled glass, with quarter round shelving...
Category
1890s Belgian Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Marble Top Step-Front Buffet
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique French Louis XVI marble top step-front buffet brings to life the classical style which has enamored those who appreciate fine design and furnishings for thousands of years! T...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Burled Walnut Marble Top Sideboard Buffet Circa 1920
Located in Long Branch, NJ
French Louis XVI Style Burled Walnut Marble Top Sideboard Buffet Circa 1920
Dimensions : 59" Wide X 20.5" Deep X 79" Tall
This early 20th century french marble top buffet has stun...
Category
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Burl
Exceptional sideboard mahogany with bronze by linke
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent mahogany dining room buffet
Particularly splendid for this type of ceremonial furniture from this prolific period
this sideboard is very rare by the quality of the maho...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian sideboard late baroque rococo sideboard Mobili Cantù walnut 1920
Located in Berlin, DE
We are offering for sale a beautiful sideboard with mirror top by “La Permanente Mobili Cantù”. The furniture was made around 1920 and was handcrafted in the style and using the tech...
Category
1920s Italian Baroque Vintage Sideboards
Materials
Walnut
Antique and Vintage Sideboards for Sale: Shop Brutalist Sideboards, Mid-Century Sideboards and Charming Art Deco Sideboards on 1stDibs
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.
Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance as case pieces 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.
Every imaginable iteration of the sideboard has taken shape over the years. 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 or vintage Danish sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays in the Hepplewhite style, 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 and vintage sideboards to choose from.