Sideboards
1720s Welsh Queen Anne Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
17th Century European Elizabethan Antique Sideboards
Oak
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century German French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Softwood
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Marble, Steel
1770s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Steel
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
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.