Sideboards
Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s European William IV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Paint, Wood, Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s English Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1920s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Philippine British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s Swiss Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1820s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s English George III Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Italian Directoire Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Siena Marble
Early 1800s American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Wood
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Dutch Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Oak
1820s French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Leather, Oak
1920s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Olive
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Beech
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.