Sideboards
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Elm
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Granite
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, Oak
Early 1900s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Iron
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sideboards
Other
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XV Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany, Rosewood
Early 20th Century Swedish Neoclassical Sideboards
Birch
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Maple
Early 20th Century French Country Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Cypress, Lacquer
Early 20th Century Philippine Anglo-Indian Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Country Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Gold Leaf
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s Swiss Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century Unknown Neoclassical Sideboards
Marble, Granite, Stone, Brass, Metal
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
Early 1900s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1770s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Pine
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sideboards
Other
Early 1900s French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century Rustic Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s Italian Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
Early 20th Century Czech Sideboards
Metal
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Walnut, Amboyna
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s Dutch Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
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.