Sideboards
19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1860s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XVI Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Sideboards
Wood
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
19th Century East Asian Victorian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1810s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Oak
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Birdseye Maple
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Rosewood
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1850s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1850s English Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Ormolu
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1770s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak, Cherry, Elm
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Dutch Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
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.