Sideboards
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1810s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1660s Italian Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century European Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1720s English Queen Anne Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
1820s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Bone, Rosewood
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1860s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Elm, Oak
1760s English Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 18th Century Dutch Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1840s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Brass
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Elm
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1790s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
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.