Sideboards
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Leather, Bamboo, Wood
2010s British Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s French Sideboards
Pine
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s British Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
2010s American Art Deco Sideboards
Lacquer, Poplar, Maple
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Travertine
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Oak, Plywood
2010s Chinese Sideboards
Wood
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Federal Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Walnut, Oak
Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
2010s Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Organic Modern Sideboards
Wood, Hardwood, Ash
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Stainless Steel
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Stainless Steel
Early 1900s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s Canadian Organic Modern Sideboards
Cut Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Seagrass
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Plywood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Marble
2010s French Sideboards
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Marble, Brass, Bronze
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble, Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Walnut
2010s American Organic Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s 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.