Sideboards
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Iron
2010s Ukrainian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Cherry
19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Sideboards
Wood
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
18th Century George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Felt, Wood, Rosewood
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Marble
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Beech, Oak
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary European Brutalist Sideboards
Metal
17th Century European Elizabethan Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Travertine
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Amboyna
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
1930s Slovak Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Rosewood
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
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.