Sideboards
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
1730s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Leather, Oak
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1760s French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Metal
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Iron
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
1640s French Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
18th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century Italian Rustic Antique Sideboards
Steel
Mid-18th Century English Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Sideboards
Pine
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Philippine British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Burl
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Metal
1790s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-17th Century Charles II Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Paint, Wood, Oak
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Cedar
Early 1800s Swiss Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, 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.