Sideboards
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fruitwood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Danish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Hong Kong Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s European Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1770s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Steel
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Belgian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1770s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1770s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
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.