Sideboards
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century French Black Forest Antique Sideboards
Oak
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather, Wood
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Sideboards
Wood, Paint
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Unknown Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
1810s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1940s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Country Sideboards
Wood
20th Century English Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
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.