EuroLux Antiques offers a wide selection of exceptional antique buffets, servers, hutches, antique china cabinets, and other dining furniture. If you want to make a dramatic design statement, our antique buffets and china cabinets are a suburb start. We bring Europe home to you!
Antique Buffets and Antique Sideboards
Modern furniture buyers often use the terms “buffet” and “sideboard” interchangeably, but in fact these antique pieces have very different origins. The buffet was actually once a separate space, apart from the dining area, where china and glassware were stored. The sideboard was simply a table placed off to the side of the dining room from which food was served.
Antique sideboards can interchangeably be called antique servers, while antique buffets can also correctly be referred to as antique hutches or antique china cabinets.
The Versatility of Antique Buffets, Hutches, China Cabinets and Sideboards
EuroLux Antiques offers antique buffets representing furniture styles ranging from Louis XV and Louis XVI, through Gothic and Renaissance Revival, and on into 20th Century Arts and Crafts, Mission, and Art Deco styles.
Predominant woods utilized in the production of antique buffets, sideboards, servers and hutches include oak, walnut, chestnut, cherry and mahogany. Though functionally similar, the look and design of these pieces vary significantly depending on wood grain, stain choices, types of carvings, hardware, the use or exclusion of glass panels in doors, and server tops made of marble or other materials.
When choosing an antique buffet, china cabinet or hutch for your home, consider both style and size. An Art Deco buffet typically features clean lines, lighter wood finishes, classic carvings of fruits or leaves, and less imposing dimensions. By contrast, antique buffets in the Hunting or Henry II styles will be darker in color with elaborate carvings of foliage, animals, human faces or figures, and created in a size that makes it the absolute star of the room.
The wide-ranging styles of these pieces make antique buffets and antique sideboards suitable for a variety of uses throughout your home. Antique hutches can hold serving pieces in the dining room, but they can just as easily store blankets or sweaters in the bedroom. Antique sideboards can showcase the perfect holiday meal, or they can be a beautiful resting spot for your large-screen television. Place that antique china cabinet or antique server in your foyer and it serves as a striking yet convenient gathering place for car keys and mail – or as lovely “catchall” storage for those items that never seem to find a permanent destination.
Our Inventory of Antique Buffets and Antique Sideboards
Eurolux Antiques travels throughout Europe to find the finest examples of antique buffets, china cabinets, servers and hutches. If you're searching for a French Gothic antique hutch and server in walnut, a vintage Spanish Mission style sideboard in oak, or a vintage French Country sideboard or buffet in light cherry, chances are you'll find it at EuroLux Antiques.
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