Sideboards
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Belgian Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
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
19th Century British William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Moorish Antique Sideboards
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Other Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Bone, Elm, Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
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
1930s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Hardwood
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1870s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1850s Swedish Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Satinwood
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
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.