Sideboards
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Sapele Wood
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mirror, Glass, Mahogany
1920s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cane, Maple, Oak
18th Century Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1970s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century British Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Wood
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Central American Empire Revival Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Yew
2010s Italian Organic Modern Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Cane, Ash, Oak, Walnut
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Palisander
20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
20th Century British Georgian Sideboards
Hardwood
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Brass
2010s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Steel
Late 20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Sideboards
Bone, Elm, Mahogany
2010s Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
20th Century Georgian Sideboards
Brass
1980s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
2010s Egyptian Modern Sideboards
Glass, Acrylic, Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Glass, Birdseye Maple
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Oak
1950s Italian 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.