Sideboards
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass, Ormolu
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century American Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
1880s French Belle Époque Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Irish Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Chinese Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Belgian William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Maple
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Oak, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1830s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wrought Iron
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Gold Leaf
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1830s French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Maple, Rosewood, Walnut
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s South Korean Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Elm, Pearwood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Sideboards
Cedar
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.