Sideboards
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Sideboards
Cedar
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Poplar, Pine
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1810s Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 19th Century French Industrial Antique Sideboards
Beech
1880s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Fir
Late 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
1850s Italian Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Iron
18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1660s Italian Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Yew
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
17th Century European Elizabethan Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
Mid-19th Century Swiss Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Metal
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
1750s English George II 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.