Sideboards
19th Century American Primitive Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s American Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1890s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather
Late 19th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Wood
1890s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Bronze
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Teak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Colombian Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 2000s Vietnamese Chippendale Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Hungarian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1880s Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Sideboards
Acrylic
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Country Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
Mid-19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Georgian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Egyptian Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bone, Wood
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bone, Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s European Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern 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.