Sideboards
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
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
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
1980s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
1880s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
1860s British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1870s High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Italian Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
1860s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Maple
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Sycamore, Pine
1860s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Burl, Ash
1820s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century American Victorian Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Serpentine
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
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.