Sideboards
Late 19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Marble, Steel
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Other
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Early 20th Century North American American Classical Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Early 1800s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Elm, Fruitwood
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 1700s French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Iron
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plywood
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Murano Glass, Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1870s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Cedar
2010s Kenyan International Style Sideboards
Marble
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Oak, Cherry
Mid-20th Century American Campaign Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Queen Anne Sideboards
Brass
2010s Canadian Sideboards
Mirror, Ash
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Sideboards
Steel
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Brass
1960s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Lacquer
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut, Wenge
Early 1800s Danish Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Agate, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Sycamore
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cane, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Ash, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Marble
2010s Italian International Style Sideboards
Marble
2010s British Modern Sideboards
Resin, Oak
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Campaign Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
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.