Sideboards
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1970s Italian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1980s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plywood
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Satinwood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Minimalist Sideboards
Teak
1970s Danish Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Plastic, Beech, Oak
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Plastic, Beech, Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Beech, Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Norwegian Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Bamboo
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
20th Century French Other Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Scandinavian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
20th Century European Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Scandinavian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
1980s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century French Rococo Revival Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
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.