Sideboards
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Folk Art Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Elm, Oak
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Yew
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1750s English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s English George III Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
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.