Sideboards
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather
1890s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s Swedish Other Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Teak
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Colombian Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Walnut
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Unknown Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Cherry
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Metal
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Early 2000s Vietnamese Chippendale Sideboards
Metal
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1880s Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
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.