1940s French Sideboard
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Wrought Iron
Vintage 1940s European Art Deco Buffets
Marble
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Faux Leather, Maple
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Sideboards
Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Elm, Amboyna
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
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 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Maple
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Elm
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Buffets
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass, Nickel
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Macassar
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Gold
Vintage 1940s French Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Wood
20th Century French Art Deco Buffets
Walnut
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Nickel
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Ebony, Sycamore
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century French Modern Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Credenzas
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Sideboards
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Sideboards
Goatskin, Maple
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Buffets
Marble, Copper
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Neoclassical Credenzas
Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Nickel, Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bronze
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Nickel
Vintage 1940s French Buffets
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Oak
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Rosewood
Vintage 1940s French Brutalist Credenzas
Walnut
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1940s French Sideboard For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a 1940s French 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.
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