Sideboards
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
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 Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
Mid-19th Century Swiss Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Bamboo
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Industrial Antique Sideboards
Beech
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
Late 19th Century Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Late 19th Century British Aesthetic Movement Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
1930s Unknown Louis XIV Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1880s French Antique Sideboards
Oak
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.