Sideboards
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century European Empire Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Bone, Wood
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Belgian Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century British William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Moorish Antique Sideboards
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Other Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Bone, Elm, Mahogany
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s Belgian Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1860s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Ash
1870s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
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.