Sideboards
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1850s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s American Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 2000s Vietnamese Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary British Regency Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 2000s Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century American Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Giltwood
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Regency Sideboards
Nickel
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Berlin Iron
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1830s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1920s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Berlin Iron
Mid-20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood, Tulipwood
1920s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Brass
1930s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Birch, Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
1930s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Yew
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
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.