Sideboards
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
1790s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century American Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1840s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
1890s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Maple
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass, Ormolu
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Elm
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century Belgian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Chinese Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Siena Marble
1880s South Korean Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Elm, Pearwood
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Bone, Rosewood
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Belgian William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
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.