Sideboards
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Maple, Oak, Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plastic, Walnut
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Marble
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Sideboards
Cedar
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1980s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Poplar, Pine
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak, Bentwood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Oak
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Canadian Organic Modern Sideboards
Cut Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Birch
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Scottish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s Chinese Sideboards
Wood
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.