Sideboards
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Macassar, Mahogany
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Egyptian Revival Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
Early 20th Century Dutch Country Sideboards
Pine
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1760s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Bone, Fruitwood
Late 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 17th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
1750s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Walnut
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1660s German Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Nutwood
Early 20th Century French Victorian Sideboards
Fruitwood
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Sideboards
Oak
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Empire Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1680s Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Sideboards
Metal
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Elm
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak, Mirror
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.