Sideboards
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century British Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-18th Century Italian Rustic Antique Sideboards
Steel
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
18th Century European Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Rosewood, Satinwood
Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1760s English Antique Sideboards
Brass, Steel
1750s English George II Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1790s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
1790s French Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
1760s Welsh Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Steel
1780s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century English Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Steel
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1600s Italian Romantic Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Mid-18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Marble, Steel
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Wood
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s Taiwanese Vintage Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
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.