Sideboards
19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Bone, Wood
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Belgian Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Italian Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century British William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Other Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-19th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Bone, Elm, Mahogany
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1860s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s Belgian Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1870s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1850s Swedish Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
19th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Satinwood
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century British Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
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.