Sideboards
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s Federal Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s American Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1910s English Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1770s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1770s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1910s Sheraton Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1910s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1770s Swiss Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1910s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1910s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Walnut
1910s American Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak, Cherry, Elm
1910s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1770s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Steel
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.