Sideboards
1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1990s American Rustic Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Walnut, Pine, Glass
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Sapele Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Late 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Cherry
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wool
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Resin
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Pine
1970s French Bohemian Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Bamboo
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak, Paint
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1760s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Rosewood, Walnut, Burl
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Beech
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1940s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Spanish Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 19th Century Hungarian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Sideboards
Steel
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1950s Central American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s Belgian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Sideboards
Copper
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Birdseye Maple, Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Organic Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Grasscloth, Bamboo
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Teak
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.