French Macassar Sideboard
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Macassar
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Buffets
Brass
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Cabinets
Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Bronze
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Buffets
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Fruitwood
Vintage 1960s French Art Deco Credenzas
Ebony
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Sycamore, Ivory, Macassar
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar, Maple
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Birch, Macassar
1990s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Macassar
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Wardrobes and Armoires
Macassar, Cedar
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Credenzas
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Chrome
Mid-20th Century French Minimalist Sideboards
Nickel
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Vitrines
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Vitrines
Brass
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Aluminum, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Macassar
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Ebony, Sycamore
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Wood
20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Oak
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Palisander
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s French Art Deco Credenzas
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Sets
Walnut
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Shelves
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Credenzas
Marble
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Dining Room Tables
Macassar
20th Century French Art Deco Dining Room Sets
Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Dining Room Tables
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French Macassar Sideboard For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a French Macassar Sideboard?
Finding the Right sideboards for You
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.