Sideboards
1970s Spanish Vintage Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Brass
2010s American American Classical Sideboards
Metal
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1890s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 19th Century Scottish Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Brass
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Victorian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Norwegian Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 19th Century Hungarian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1890s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century English Tudor Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s French Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Rattan
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Burl, Mirror
Late 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Chippendale Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Fruitwood, Oak
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass, Other
1920s British Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Sideboards
Granite
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Glass, Wood, Oak
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.