Sideboards
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Fruitwood, Oak
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak, Glass
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Dutch Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Lithuanian Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
1920s Dutch Arts and Crafts Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak
2010s Ukrainian Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Metal
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Mahogany
1880s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Canadian Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Stained Glass, Oak
1890s French Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century English Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary German Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary German Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary German Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Metal
20th Century English Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Scottish Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak
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.