Sideboards
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Belgian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Art Glass, Wood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
2010s Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Birch
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Beech, Teak
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass, Oak
2010s French Louis Philippe Sideboards
Wood, Oak, Cherry
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Giltwood, Oak
2010s Mexican American Craftsman Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Cane, Teak
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1970s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Siena Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Finnish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Plywood
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.