Large 800 series sideboard by Alain Richard, Ed. Meubles TV, France circa 1958
By Meubles TV, Alain Richard
Located in Paris, FR
Large sideboard with bar designed in 1958 by French designer Alain Richard for Meubles TV. Very good quality manufacturing. The body of the buffet, in oak veneer, rests on a black la...
Steel, Chrome
Guillerme et Chambron Sideboard with Lamp
By Guillerme et Chambron
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Beautiful sideboard or buffet in solid oak designed by French designer Guillerme et Chambron - France, 1950s Cabinet has two sliding front doors and four drawers along with a drop d...
Oak
Hollywood Regency Sideboard / Credenza / Cabinet, Bronze Mounted, Empire Style
Located in Stamford, CT
Hollywood Regency Sideboard / Credenza / Cabinet, Bronze Mounted, Empire Style A black lacquered sideboard having two pull out drawers and three doors that open to a spacious drawer ...
Granite, Bronze
Bloc sideboard by Charlotte Perriand
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Rare bahut bloc trois portes par Charlotte Perriand pour la cité minière de Cansado en Mauritanie. Édition steph Simon.
Steel
Joseph Savina Sideboard with Decorative Carvings in Oak
By Joseph Savina
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Joseph Savina, sideboard, oak, France, 1954 Designed by the Frenchman Joseph Savina, this sideboard is a testament to exquisite craftsmanship and profound artistry. The corpus is so...
Oak
'Bloc' Sideboard by Charlotte Perriand for Cité Cansado, 1950s
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in Antwerp, BE
Designed by Charlotte Perriand during the 1950s for the Cité Cansado development, this ‘Bloc’ sideboard exemplifies her vision of modular living and functional modernism. The composi...
Metal
Guillerme and Chambron, Rare Early Period Sideboard for Votre Maison", 1955.
By Votre Maison, Robert Guillerme, Guillerme et Chambron
Located in Paris, FR
Guillerme et Chambron, Rare Sideboard in Oak from the early period of French company "Votre Maison". France, Circa 1955. Here is an oak Credenza designed by French creator duo Rober...
Brass, Iron
Joseph Savina Sideboard in Oak and Wrought Iron
By Joseph Savina
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Joseph Savina, sideboard, oak, wrought iron, France, 1950s Designed by the Frenchman Joseph Savina, this cabinet is a testament to exquisite craftsmanship and profound artistry. The...
Wrought Iron
Teak Sideboard by Pierre Jeanneret for the Admin Offices at Chandigarh, c. 1958
By Pierre Jeanneret
Located in New York City, NY
Teak Sideboard Designed for the Administrative Offices at Chandigarh, by Pierre Jeanneret, France/India, c. 1957-58
Teak
Mid Century Wooden and Metal "Bloc" Charlotte Perriand Sideboard Cabinet, 1950s
By Steph Simon, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very rare French mid century "Bloc" sideboard cabinet in black lacquered metal, dark stained veenered mahogony wooden top and bottom with three black and white laminated sliding do...
Metal
Italain Sideboard Made Of Solid Wood And Covered With Colored Glass 1950S
Located in Madrid, ES
Stunning mid-century Italian sideboard with a striking design from the 1950s. This exquisite piece features a solid wood structure, elegantly covered with colored glass panels that b...
Brass
'50s unique Maxime Old Sideboard in metal, bronze and ash veneer
By Maxime Old
Located in Paris, FR
An exceptional and unique large metal and oak veneer sideboard forming a cabinet, composed by two parts. They also can be presented with an angle. This piece was part of the furnitur...
Metal, Bronze
Maison Leleu, Sideboard Cabinet, France, 1956
By Maison Leleu
Located in New York, NY
With original label dated: 9 Nov 1956 Numbered: 28261 At nearly twelve feet long, this magnificent sideboard is a marvel of unity and proportion. Made of mahogany and covered in...
Bronze
$21,000
Teak Sideboard
By Marcel Gascoin
Located in New York, NY
This sideboard (Edition Alveole) is made of teak and made by Marcel Gascoin, circa 1950.
Metal
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.
Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance as case pieces 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.
Every imaginable iteration of the sideboard has taken shape over the years. 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 or vintage Danish sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays in the Hepplewhite style, 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 and vintage sideboards to choose from.
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