Sideboards
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Burl, Lacquer
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1980s German Vintage Sideboards
Ash
1980s Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Burl, Lacquer
1940s American Vintage Sideboards
Rattan
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fruitwood
1980s German Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Ash
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Gold Plate
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
1940s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
1940s Hong Kong Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Chippendale Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1980s American Empire Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1980s French Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1940s European Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Murano Glass, Wood
1940s Belgian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1980s Bohemian Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Murano Glass, Maple
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1980s European 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.