Sideboards
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Fruitwood, Oak
19th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1840s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Elm, Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
1890s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1940s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Maple
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century American Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Bone, Rosewood
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s French Belle Époque Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass, Ormolu
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Maple
1940s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Marble
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.