Sideboards
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1880s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Italian Sideboards
Iron
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood, Oak, Walnut
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
19th Century English Empire Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Maple, Oak, Walnut
19th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary European Gustavian Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Italian Sideboards
Leather, Glass, Wood
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Walnut, Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Crystal, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel
19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Kingwood
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century European Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
1830s English Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s American Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Neoclassical Sideboards
Wood
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
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.