Sideboards
1870s Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
1920s English George III Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Wood, Pine
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Irish George IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Satinwood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century Welsh George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
1820s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1720s Danish George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English George IV Sideboards
Pine
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century British 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.