Sideboards
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1920s Swiss Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
1920s French Country Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Belgian Black Marble
1920s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
1920s Polish International Style Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
Early 19th Century Irish George IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
1920s European Adam Style Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Maple
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.