Sideboards
Late 19th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Paint
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Other
1880s French Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Sideboards
Zinc
1860s French High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
1870s French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Hong Kong Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Iron
1870s French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Italian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Sapele Wood
19th Century English Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Bamboo
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1850s English Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
Late 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Ebony
1890s French Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1810s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1880s Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Bamboo
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
Early 19th Century English British Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1870s Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
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.