Sideboards
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
1920s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Satinwood
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
1880s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century Welsh George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1720s Danish George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Early 1800s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Walnut
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1830s English George IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s Danish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary English George IV Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1820s European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Brass
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1750s French Georgian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
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.