Sideboards
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Scottish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
19th Century British William IV Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s French Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Rattan
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1970s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Central American Empire Revival Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Wood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s American Chippendale Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
2010s South African Modern Sideboards
Steel, Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1920s British Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s New Zealand Organic Modern Sideboards
Wood, Reclaimed Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak, Glass
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Sideboards
Leather, Wood
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
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.