Sideboards
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Brass
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Bakelite, Birdseye Maple, Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer, Ash
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Gold Leaf
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Mirror
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1940s Polish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Ebony, Satinwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s Unknown Art Deco 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.