Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Travertine
2010s Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Reclaimed Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern Sideboards
Elm
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Chestnut
Early 2000s French Minimalist Sideboards
Aluminum
2010s American American Craftsman Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Egyptian Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Louis Philippe Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Balkan Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ash, Oak, Walnut
2010s Balkan Modern Sideboards
Leather, Wood
Early 2000s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Serbian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ash, Oak, Walnut
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
2010s Balkan Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Leather, Bamboo, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Balkan Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut, Lacquer
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1810s Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
1810s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
2010s French Sideboards
Pine
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Danish Sideboards
Teak, Rosewood
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Minimalist Sideboards
Composition, Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Polish Sideboards
Travertine, Marble, Steel
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Sideboards
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Steel
Early 19th Century American American Colonial Antique 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.