Sideboards
Mid-18th Century Welsh Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Glass
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Formica, Teak
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Metal
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Crystal
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Other
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Sideboards
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
Early 20th Century Louis XV Sideboards
Fruitwood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Sideboards
Glass, Walnut, Burl
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Marble
2010s Canadian Organic Modern Sideboards
Cut Steel
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Hardwood, Lacquer
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Ebony, Mahogany, Sycamore
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Antique, New and Vintage Sideboards
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.