Sideboards
1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1850s Swedish Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Satinwood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Wood
1660s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century British Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1850s Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Burl, Ash
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1660s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood, Teak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Fir
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood, Tulipwood
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Serpentine
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Mid-19th Century Italian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Fir
Early 19th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
1890s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
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.