Sideboards
1780s French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
1750s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1760s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Steel
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
1780s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century British Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
1790s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century British William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
1790s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1750s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1780s Regency Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century Irish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
17th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1720s English George I Antique Sideboards
Oak
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1760s English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Sideboards
Oak
17th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-18th Century Irish George II Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Metal
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1750s English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
17th Century English Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
1720s Welsh Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-18th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s Italian Other Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
1770s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak, Cherry, Elm
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Other Antique Sideboards
Cypress
1990s French Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Metal
18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
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.