Sideboards
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Birch, Walnut
1960s Scandinavian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Poplar
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Sapele Wood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cane, Maple, Oak
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Palisander
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1950s German Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Seagrass
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Oak
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
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.