Sideboards
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century Central American Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood, Pine, Paint
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
18th Century Dutch Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1700s French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Iron
17th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 17th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Fir
Late 17th Century French Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1990s French Post-Modern Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Iron
1760s English Antique Sideboards
Brass, Steel
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Goatskin, Glass
1670s English Charles II Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Dutch Rococo Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Brass
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Metal
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Wood, Oak
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1750s French Georgian Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood
1750s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1600s Italian Romantic Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Pine
1750s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, 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.