Sideboards
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1820s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Victorian Sideboards
Fruitwood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Bone, Fruitwood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Empire Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century English Campaign Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak, Mirror
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Elm
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Polish Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Belgian Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Amboyna
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak, Glass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Iron
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
1920s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Cherry, Mahogany
Early 19th Century English William IV Antique Sideboards
Brass
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.