Sideboards
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Cedar
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Iron
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Slovak Rococo Antique Sideboards
Gold Plate
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
19th Century German Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Glass, Oak, Poplar, Walnut, Burl
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1880s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Belgian Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1890s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Giltwood
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Queen Anne Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1880s Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Lacquer, Paint, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
19th Century French Other Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1860s British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century European George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1870s High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Romanian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Indian Antique Sideboards
Reclaimed Wood
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
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.