Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century Czech Bauhaus Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1910s American Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1920s American Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
1920s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Central American Empire Revival Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century British Aesthetic Movement Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Maple
Early 20th Century Hungarian Country Sideboards
Pine
Early 1900s British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s Danish Rococo Vintage Sideboards
Birch
1920s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Breccia Marble
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1920s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Berlin Iron
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 1900s Romanian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Victorian Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Silver Plate
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Palisander
Early 20th Century English Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century North American Federal Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century European George III Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Folk Art Sideboards
Wood
1910s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Sycamore, Pine
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Other
Early 1900s French Beaux Arts Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm, Lacquer
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Early 20th Century English 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.