Sideboards
1790s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s Italian Other Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Baroque Revival Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Oak
1780s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Wood
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Regency Antique Sideboards
Elm
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Mahogany
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1940s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Metal
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mohair, Burl
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Parchment Paper, Maple, Mirror
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
1770s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Ormolu
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Birch, Macassar
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1780s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English 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.