Sideboards
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century American Brutalist Sideboards
Metal
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century French Other Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Nickel
19th Century Japanese Antique Sideboards
Brass, Iron
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Sideboards
Wood
1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Swedish Rococo Sideboards
Birch
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1880s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Berlin Iron
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
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.