Sideboards
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1980s American Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Olive, Burl, Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Palisander
1970s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Unknown Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Sideboards
Steel
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Felt, Mirror, Rosewood, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1970s European Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Late 20th Century American French Provincial Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Rosewood, Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Vintage Sideboards
1970s American Vintage Sideboards
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.