Sideboards
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Mahogany
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Fir
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Other
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1780s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Other
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Other
1780s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Metal
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s Scottish Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Marble, Silver Plate
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s French Regency Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
1780s French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
1790s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1780s Regency Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Metal
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
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.