Sideboards
1930s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Glass, Oak
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Yew
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century British Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1880s American High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1890s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s Hungarian Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century Victorian Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century European High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Leather, Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Velvet
1880s French High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1960s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary English Victorian Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1870s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary English Gustavian Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak, Burl
19th Century European Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian 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.