Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 2000s American French Provincial Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary British Regency Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Resin
2010s European Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Resin
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Marble, Carrara Marble
Early 2000s Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Wood, Paint
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Copper
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Moorish Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Sideboards
Pine, Reclaimed Wood
2010s Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Moorish Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Neoclassical Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 2000s English Victorian Sideboards
Marble, Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Moorish Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Sideboards
Ash, Cherry, Maple, Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Cane, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wrought Iron
2010s Philippine Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Canadian Organic Modern Sideboards
Cut Steel, Brass, Bronze, Nickel
2010s Italian Sideboards
Rosewood
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Oak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Oak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Teak
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Marble
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s American Louis XV Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
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.