Sideboards
1990s Belgian Post-Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone, Marble, Brass, Chrome
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Mirror, Lacquer
Late 20th Century French Post-Modern Sideboards
Glass, Lucite, Cherry, Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood, Sycamore
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Beech
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mother-of-Pearl, Art Glass, Elm, Mahogany
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
1980s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Late 20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Sideboards
Granite, Metal
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century British Bauhaus Sideboards
Chrome
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cane, Oak
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Beech
1950s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Berlin Iron
1970s Spanish Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1950s Indian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century European Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Plexiglass, Cherry
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Late 20th Century North American Sideboards
Rattan
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1970s American Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
1990s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
Late 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
1980s English Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
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.