Sideboards
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Beech, Teak
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Sideboards
Hardwood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Art Glass, Wood
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Sideboards
Glass, Walnut, Burl
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
2010s Polish Sideboards
Marble, Steel
1960s French Bohemian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Zebra Wood
1970s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
2010s Chinese Sideboards
Wood
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s English Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Sideboards
Metal
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Chrome
1990s American Rustic Sideboards
Oak, Paint
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 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.