Fristho Highboard
Vintage 1950s Cabinets
Chrome
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
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Textile
20th Century Belgian Dry Bars
Rosewood
2010s Italian Wardrobes and Armoires
Walnut
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Aluminum
Vintage 1950s Italian Dry Bars
Crystal, Metal
Vintage 1930s Slovak Art Deco Buffets
Macassar, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Formica, Teak
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Formica, Teak
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Mahogany
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Steel
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Bookcases
Metal, Nickel
Antique Late 18th Century Welsh George III Dressers
Iron
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Chrome
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1950s Sideboards
Chrome
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
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.