Sideboards
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Ash
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English William and Mary Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
18th Century Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
17th Century European Elizabethan Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1770s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
1780s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
Late 18th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century Welsh Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century French Louis XIII Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Brass
1730s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1770s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1760s French Antique Sideboards
Wood
17th Century European Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Burl
Early 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
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.