Sideboards
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel, Bronze
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Mahogany
1930s Unknown Louis XIV Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal, Chrome
1990s American Rustic Sideboards
Oak, Paint
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1930s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Yew
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Burl
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Giltwood, Oak
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Silver Leaf
1990s American Modern Sideboards
Glass, Laminate
1990s French Provincial Sideboards
Pine
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Birch, Burl
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1930s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Maple
1990s Belgian Post-Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s Slovak Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1930s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1990s American Brutalist Sideboards
Metal, Cut Steel
1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1930s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Wood
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Plywood
1930s European Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1990s American Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
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.