Sideboards
1810s Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1820s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Nutwood
1660s German Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1680s Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak, Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Late 18th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Iron
18th Century Slovak Rococo Antique Sideboards
Gold Plate
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
1780s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Early 1800s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s Irish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century European George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite 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.