Sideboards
2010s Canadian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
2010s French Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary British Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary British Sheraton Sideboards
Satinwood, Yew
2010s Italian Other Sideboards
Pine, Reclaimed Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Elm
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Sideboards
Ash, Cherry, Maple, Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Regency Sideboards
Wood
2010s American Post-Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Acrylic, Oak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Metal
2010s Egyptian Modern Sideboards
Alabaster
2010s Italian Sideboards
Marble, 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.