Sideboards
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Victorian Sideboards
Fruitwood
1960s Dutch Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Metal
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
1930s Victorian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 2000s English Victorian Sideboards
Marble, Silver
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
1880s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
1860s British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1870s High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1860s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
1870s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Maple
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Czech Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1930s Scottish Victorian Vintage Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 20th Century American Victorian Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Elm, Fabric
20th Century Industrial Sideboards
Iron
1960s Scandinavian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Poplar
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass, Enamel
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
20th Century English Victorian Sideboards
Yew
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1880s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Canadian Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1860s French High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
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.