Sideboards
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Maple, Rosewood, Walnut
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Other
1770s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1770s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1890s French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Late 19th Century Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1860s English Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Welsh Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1870s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century German Antique Sideboards
Metal
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
1830s German Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 1800s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Fir, Pine
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1810s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble
1880s Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1860s Belgian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Wood
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.