Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s French Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Beech, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
2010s American American Classical Sideboards
Metal
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Ash
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Ash
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm, Walnut
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Neoclassical Sideboards
Wood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
1930s American Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Rattan, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Burl
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Central American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Scottish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
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.