Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Maple
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Shagreen
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Shagreen, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Gold
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Wood, Velvet, Mirror
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Bronze, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Iron, Gold Leaf
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Wood
2010s French Sideboards
Bronze, Steel
2010s Portuguese Organic Modern Sideboards
Corian
1960s French Neoclassical Vintage Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wrought Iron
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
1950s Chinese Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Lacquer, Leather
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Lacquer, Milk Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Leaf
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Gold Leaf
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1990s Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold, Brass
1980s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stone
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Nickel
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Vintage Sideboards
Brass Hardware and studs to front and sides
Marked Parzinger Originals
20th Century American Sideboards
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.