Rudolf B. Glatzel XXL Crossleg Sideboard Fristho, the Netherlands, 1955
By Fristho, Rudolf Bernd Glatzel
Located in Etten-Leur, NL
This was designed as a modular system so this is to be found in many different editions. This well-crafted unusual sideboard is executed in walnut wood and has a very nice cross legg...
Walnut
French symmetric sideboard walnut and brass France 1960
Located in Etten-Leur, NL
Beautiful shaped unusual sideboard by unknown designer or manufacturer, France 1960.
Brass
Sold|$12,500
Unusual George III Sideboard
Located in Westwood, NJ
Unusual George III (Hepplewhite) mahogany crossbanded serpentine sideboard with tambour doors on square tapered legs and rare rosewood secondary woods.
Mahogany
Sold|$4,600
Highly Unusual Ebonized, limed oak sideboard
Located in New York, NY
Highly unusual ebonized, limed oak sideboard, featuring pyramidical etageres
Antique American Country Industrial Distressed Painted Workbench
Located in Forney, TX
Dimensions: (approx) 54" High, 35" Wide, 30.5" Deep Would look wonderful in a variety of today's contemporary interiors, and having the ideal size and proportions for a variety o...
Wood, Paint
Unusual Mid-Century Sideboard with Bamboo Drawers
Located in New York, NY
Unusual Mid-Century Sideboard with Bamboo Drawers
Sold|$10,246
Unusual Art Deco Period Shaped Teak Sideboard
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Unusual and rare sideboard of generous proportions, circa 1920.
Teak
Unusual Nine Foot Rosewood Sideboard circa 1970s
Located in Peabody, MA
Rare nine foot long Danish modern rosewood sideboard credenza, two cabinets on single enameled steel frame. Offers the perfect counter-point to a long expanse of wall. 110 3/8” lo...
Steel
Unusual 19th Century English Regency Mahogany Bowfront Sideboard
Located in Richmond, VA
Unusual 19th century English Regency mahogany bowfront sideboard. incredible flame mahogany top.
Mahogany
Unusual postmodern American waterfall laminate dresser / sideboard 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
An unusual double-waterfall shaped postmodern dresser / sideboard with 8 drawers.
Metal
Unusual highboard or sideboard in rosewood Denmark 1967
Located in Etten-Leur, NL
Unusual Danish highboard or sideboard, produced in 1967 and executed in beautifully grained rosewood.
Rosewood
Unusual 1950s Italian Demilune Sideboard or Vanity-Table
Located in London, GB
Painted fruitwood two-drawer sideboard or vanity-table on elegant tapered circular legs, with peach glass effect on top surface; the drawers and main body painted in a vivid yellow a...
Wood
Unusual vintage sculptural postmodern American lacquered sideboard 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
A dramatic sculptural postmodern American lacquered sideboard. Shiny black doors, swooping curved top/ends in a speckled lacquer. Push-Click doors open onto shelved storage. Circa 19...
Lacquer
Sold|$12,000
Unusual George III Yew Wood and Inlaid Sideboard
Located in Essex, MA
Serpentine form with batten ends, over conforming central cutlery drawers flanked by two deep bottle drawers, inlaid with paterae, bell flower and leaf decorated spandrels, raised on...
Unusual 1950s Black Sideboard in the Style of Paolo Buffa
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Berlin, DE
This unusual 1950s black sideboard in the style of Paolo Buffa is made out of ash and ash veneer.
Ash
Unusual 1960s French Hand-Painted Wooden Sideboard, Decorated with Trees
Located in Baambrugge, NL
An unusual 1960s French hand-painted wooden sideboard, decorated with trees, on carved wooden and raisin bases and marble top
Marble
Unusual Bauhaus Mahogany Sideboard by Mücke - Melder, Czechia 'Bohemia', 1930s
By Mücke & Melder
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
Bauhaus sideboard with drawers, cabinet. Original well preserved condition. Country of origin is Czechia (Czechoslovakia) from period 1930-1939. Material: Mahogany chrome-plated s...
Chrome
1960 Unusual Italian BLUE Glass Sideboard/Console with Star Motif
Located in New York, NY
A very rare 6-drawers console/sideboard hand made in Venice, Italy, with very elegant lines: bowed front and concave sides, striking in the color: decorated with a rare blue glass. ...
Bronze
Antique Swedish Sideboard in Solid Pine in an Unusual Shape with Slanted Corners
Located in Kramfors, SE
The sideboard is low and wide and has an unusual shape with slanted corners, making it almost rounded.
Pine
Sold|$3,650
Cherry Sideboard
Located in Surrey, BC
Solid cherry sideboard with unusual configuration ….Waterloo county ….rare 6ft length
Wood
Sold|$15,000
Scottish Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
UNUSUAL OAK SIDEBOARD, SCOTTISH MID 19TH C WITH BARLEY TWIST COLUMNS AND TERRIFIC BRASS HARDWARE.
Oak
Georgian sideboard
Located in Greenwich, CT
An unusual high-county sideboard constructed of solid highly figured planks of burr oak.
Sold|$7,500
Sideboard Bookcase
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A unusual raw wood sideboard with built in bookcase and custom drawers.
Wood
CUSTOM DESIGNED SIDEBOARD
Located in New York, NY
Unusual custom designed cerused oak sideboard. Deco inspired design in black teal & green.
Sold|$6,263
Sideboard, Italy, 1940s
Located in Greding, DE
Unusual Italian sideboard on a semi-circular stand.
Sold|$2,995
Pine Mirrored Sideboard
Located in Baltimore, MD
An unusual pine sideboard featuring a large central bevelled mirror flanked by two glazed display cupboards mounted on a base of three hand-cut dovetailed drawers above three panelle...
Pine
Sold|$11,620
Mid-Century Walnut Sideboard
Located in London, GB
A walnut sideboard, of unusual shape France, Circa 1950
Walnut
Sold|$4,018
18th Century Baroque Sideboard
Located in Kramfors, SE
Unusual Baroque sideboard with slanted sides from northern Sweden on the border to Finland.
Sold|$13,466
1950's Italian sideboard
Located in London, GB
Unusual dusty pink sideboard detailed with dull gold and black glass design.
Brass
Sold|$2,570
English Serpentine Front Sideboard
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Unusual English serpentine front sideboard / buffet with later paint decoration. 1880 Height is worktop is 36".
Mahogany
Sold|$2,529
British Deco Sideboard, 1950s
Located in London, England
Unusual art deco oak sideboard with faceted cabinet doors on either side of x 4 central drawers.
Oak
Sold|$3,007
1960s Vintage Danish Sideboard
Located in London, GB
A stunning and very well made Danish vintage sideboard, this dates from the 1960s. This is a lovely compact size, it is very unusual to find a Danish sideboard of this style under 15...
Wood
Sold|$6,500
Mastercraft Acid Etched Sideboard
Located in North Miami, FL
A most unusual Mastercraft sideboard.This piece is not often seen and simply beautiful.
Brass
Sold|$1,360
1960s Vintage Teak Sideboard
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and unusual vintage sideboard in teak, this dates from the 1960s.
Teak
Sold|$8,886
Small Georgian Mahogany Sideboard
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Late 18th Century, Georgian, mahogany Hepplewhite Period Serpentine Sideboard, Of Unusual Diminutive Proportions, Retaining Exceptional Colour And Patina Througho...
Mahogany
Sold|$6,972
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboard
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Unusual Gustavian sideboard with carved top. Below are six short and one long drawer with decorative star handles.
Wood
Sold|$3,545
Ahrend Industrial Sideboard Holland, 1960
By Jean Prouvé, Wim Rietveld
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
This is made of grey painted metal and has grey/salmon colored sliding doors. Very nice and unusual industrial sideboard in very good original condition.
Metal
Sold|$7,500
Jansen Red Laquered & Mirrored Sideboard
Located in Stamford, CT
A very unusual red lacquered sideboard of grand scale, stamped JANSEN, mirrored top and doors, brass loop hardware, on squared tapering legs and brass caps.
Wood, Mirror
Sold|$6,800
French 1940's Rosewood Sideboard
Located in Buchanan, NY
Unusual French Rosewood 1940's Sideboard With 3 Pull Out Drawers and Two Side Compartments with Shelves with Original Hardware.
Sold|$10,253
Large 18th Century Gustavian Sideboard
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Large 18th Century Gustavian sideboard with unusual geometrical wood carving. With a galleried top, below two drawers, below two doors opening to useful storage.
Wood
Sold|$8,202
Arts and Crafts Century Sideboard
Located in London, GB
An Arts and Crafts mahogany, walnut and brass mounted sideboard, of most unusual shape. By repute made for Munstead House, Gertrude Jeckyll's house in Surrey, designed by Sir Edwin ...
Brass
Sold|$8,036
Art Deco Sideboard, Italy, 1940s
Located in Greding, DE
Long Art Deco sideboard on an unusual base, the tabletop is slightly raised.
Brass
Sold|$3,900
French Moderne' Cabinet or Sideboard
By Votre Maison
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual blonde wood cabinet or sideboard, made in France, circa late 1940s.
Bakelite, Glass, Wood
Sold|$4,500
Fantastic French Art Deco Sideboard
Located in Amarillo, TX
Nicely proportioned sideboard of unusual form in Brazilian rosewood. Sliding glass doors enclose a display cabinet lined in contrasting blond satinwood.
Rosewood, Satinwood, Glass
Sold|$3,417
1960s Vintage Sideboard by Uniflex
By Uniflex, Gunther Hoffstead
Located in London, GB
The U shaped sides are characteristic of Hofftstead’s designs for Uniflex, and give this a distinctive look. The most unusual aspect of this sideboard the right hand side of the cabi...
Wood
Sold|$1,162
1960s Vintage Walnut & Zebrano Sideboard
By Elliots of Newbury
Located in London, GB
A stylish and unusual design, this vintage sideboard was made by Elliots of Newbury, it dates from the 1960s.
Wood, Walnut
Sold|$2,665
1960's Teak Vintage Sideboard
Located in London, GB
An absolutely stunning and quite unusual vintage teak sideboard. This was made in England, it dates from the 1960’s.
Teak
Antique Northern Swedish Rustic Country Sideboard
Located in Kramfors, SE
The model of the sideboard is unusual. It’s low and wide and it likely had an upper cabinet originally.
Pine
Sold|$3,200
Late 19th Century English Pine Sideboard
Located in Southampton, NY
Late 19th century English pine sideboard. Beautiful and unusual piece. Stripped pine, three drawers, backsplash on tapered legs.
Pine
Sold|$6,288
1960's Vintage Sideboard by Uniflex
By Gunther Hoffstead, Uniflex
Located in London, GB
The handles are beautifully recessed and also made from solid wood. The most unusual aspect of this sideboard the right hand side of the cabinet, which opens up vertically to reveal ...
Wood
Sold|$1,982
Quality Art Deco Burr Walnut Sideboard
Located in Benington, Herts
A high quality Art Deco sideboard with an unusual rounded center that with compliment any interior whether it be traditional or contemporary.
Walnut
18th Century Hepplewhite English Mahogany Sideboard
By George Hepplewhite
Located in Savannah, GA
18th century Hepplewhite mahogany English two-tier antique sideboard with unusual serpentine three-drawer front.
Brass
Sold|$1,353
1950s Vintage Elm and Walnut Sideboard
Located in London, GB
A stunning and very unusual vintage sideboard, this has a walnut carcass, elm sliding doors and lovely grooved etched patterns on the doors.
Elm, Walnut
Sold|$1,353
1950s Vintage Elm and Walnut Sideboard
Located in London, GB
A stunning and very unusual vintage sideboard, this has a walnut carcass, elm sliding doors and lovely grooved etched patterns on the doors.
Elm, Walnut
Midcentury italian sideboard attributed to Vittorio Valabrega
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Unusual and elegant italian midcentury sideboard attributed to Vittorio Valabrega.
Wood
Tall Brazilian Rosewood, Envelope Sideboard by Mcintosh
Located in Houston, TX
A stately unusual Brazilian rosewood envelope sideboard. Three doors in the center open envelope style to a bar.
Rosewood, Mahogany
Sold|$1,708
Long Low Art Deco Zebrano Sideboard, c1930
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
A very unusual long and very low sideboard produced in France in the 1930’s using Zebrano and walnut the unit has a lockable door to the left with a chromed hoop handle it has a 2 ti...
Walnut, Zebra Wood
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.
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