Sideboards
Late 19th Century Dutch Empire Antique Sideboards
Pine
1660s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1670s Minimalist Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1840s Chinese Country Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s French Restauration Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
1850s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1830s English William IV Antique Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Reclaimed Wood, Lacquer
Late 18th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s Italian Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Bronze
19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
1820s German Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
1770s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Steel
Early 19th Century American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Argentine Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
16th Century German Gothic Antique Sideboards
Wood
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.