Sideboards
1790s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Pine
17th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1600s Italian Romantic Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1750s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
1780s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
1780s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1750s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century Swiss Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry, Spruce
Mid-18th Century Irish George II Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century British Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Regency Antique Sideboards
Elm
1790s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1760s English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Dutch Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
18th Century British Country Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1720s English George I Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
1820s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
18th Century British William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
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.