Sideboards
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1930s British Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Beech, Pine
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Formica, Beech
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 1900s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century American Sideboards
Metal
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Cherry, Mahogany
1910s Federal Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century French Louis Philippe Sideboards
Fruitwood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Plexiglass, Cherry
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer, Ash
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Plywood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Bakelite, Birdseye Maple, Mahogany
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century North American Sideboards
Rattan
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.