Sideboards
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
1810s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Italian Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
1880s Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Serpentine
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Mongolian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Elm, Fabric
Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1990s American Rustic Sideboards
Oak, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century American Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1840s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
1860s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Elm, Oak
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
1880s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1850s English Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass, Ormolu
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.