Sideboards
1960s Scottish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Country Sideboards
Wood
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
20th Century English Sideboards
Hardwood
2010s American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Steel
Mid-19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Marble
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Georgian Sideboards
Wood
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
20th Century British Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Empire Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bone, Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Egyptian Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bone, Wood
1960s Swedish Other Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s European Sideboards
Wood
1980s English Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Rustic Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Early 2000s American French Provincial Sideboards
Metal
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Beech
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Teak
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern 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.