Sideboards
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1660s English Charles II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Fir
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century European Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut, Satinwood, Birch
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s Danish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 18th Century Welsh George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Satin
1790s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Brass
1810s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Dutch Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany, Fabric
Early 19th Century European Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 17th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
17th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 17th Century French Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Fir
Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1820s American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu
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.