Sideboards
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Egyptian Revival Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Nutwood
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak, Mahogany
Late 18th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
Late 18th Century European George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Maple
Early 1900s French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Iron
Early 1900s Romanian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s French Beaux Arts Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
1790s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Yew
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s French 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.