Sideboards
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1940s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rattan, Teak
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Marble
1960s Czech Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Beech
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Czech Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary European Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Metal
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Czech Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Beech, Plywood, Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Plywood, Beech
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Rosewood, Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Plywood, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Beech, Wood, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Porcelain, Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch
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.