Sideboards
18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1750s French Georgian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary British Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
1790s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1750s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Mongolian Folk Art Sideboards
Pine
1720s English George I Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Irish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1760s English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century Irish George II Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1750s English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
1770s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mid-19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 18th Century British George I Antique Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century and Earlier English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s British Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
20th Century British Georgian Sideboards
Hardwood
20th Century British Georgian Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
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.