Sideboards
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s North American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Parchment Paper
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany, Maple, Glass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Wood
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Burl
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Amboyna
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
19th Century French Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Oak, Paint
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mohair, Burl
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s Canadian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut, Glass
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
1940s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Giltwood, Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Mirror
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Mirror
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Pine, Glass
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Satin, Mahogany
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Leaf
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.