Rio Sideboard
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Rosewood
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Wood
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Sideboards
Wood
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Rosewood
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Rosewood
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
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Rosewood
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Brass
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Metal
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Wood
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Brass
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Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Hardwood
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Steel
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
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Rosewood
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Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Desks and Writing Tables
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Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Credenzas
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Rosewood
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Pine
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Teak
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Bronze
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood, Mahogany
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Credenzas
Brass
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Iron
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
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Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Danish Sideboards
Metal
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Rosewood, Wood
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
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Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Metal
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Credenzas
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1970s Scandinavian Buffets
Palisander
Vintage 1950s Dutch Scandinavian Modern Buffets
Palisander, Teak
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Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
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Brass
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Metal, Chrome
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Brass
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Oak, Rosewood
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Vintage 1950s Danish Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Italian Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1950s Danish Sideboards
Oak, Wicker
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Rosewood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
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Rosewood
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
Marble
Vintage 1950s French Sideboards
Metal
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
20th Century French Art Deco Cabinets
Vintage 1960s Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
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Vintage 1960s Italian Buffets
Rosewood
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Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Italian Sideboards
Palisander
Vintage 1960s Belgian Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1950s Danish Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Rosewood
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Credenzas
Siena Marble
Vintage 1950s Danish Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Lacquer
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Brass
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Granite
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Rosewood
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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.
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