Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mirror, Glass, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Mid-20th Century Danish Baroque Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Canadian Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Formica, Beech
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Birch, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Mirror
Mid-20th Century Swedish Rococo Sideboards
Birch
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Hardwood, Oak, Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Teak
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
Mid-20th Century Spanish Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Steel
1960s British Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Teak
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Grasscloth, Mahogany
1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass, Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
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.