Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Colombian Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1880s Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1960s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century American Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Sideboards
Acrylic
1770s French Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather, Wood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 2000s Vietnamese Chippendale Sideboards
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Steel
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Formica, Oak
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Country Sideboards
Wood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
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.