Sideboards
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1810s Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1860s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Iron
1850s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century European Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
1880s American Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1820s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Cypress
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Brass
Mid-19th Century Mongolian Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
19th Century American Primitive Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Kingwood
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
1890s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s American Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 19th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English 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.