Sideboards
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Hardwood
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s British Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century Italian Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin, Glass, Maple
1810s European Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer
1820s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1980s American Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 19th Century Swiss Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry, Spruce
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Dutch Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
Early 19th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Elm, Fruitwood
1810s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble
1980s European Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Spanish Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1810s English George III Antique Sideboards
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
1820s American Sheraton 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.