Sideboards
Early 19th Century Italian Directoire Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Caribbean British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1820s French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century Jamaican British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut, Satinwood, Birch
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century European Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s Danish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Satin
1810s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany, Fabric
Early 19th Century European Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble
1820s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Pine
1820s American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
1820s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Chestnut
Early 19th Century Italian Other Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 19th Century Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1820s Italian Charles X Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Lambskin, Suede, Glass, Wood
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
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.