Sideboards
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Mexican Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Gold, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Lithuanian Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Mexican Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Copper
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Onyx, Brass, Stainless Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Onyx, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Onyx, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s American Sideboards
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Regency Sideboards
Brass
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s American American Classical Sideboards
Metal
Early 2000s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Hungarian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Ukrainian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s American Sideboards
Aluminum, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern 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.