Sideboards
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Sideboards
Granite, Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century British Bauhaus Sideboards
Chrome
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1980s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s Spanish Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century European Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Oak, Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
1970s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1970s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
Late 20th Century North American Sideboards
Rattan
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1780s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Plexiglass, Cherry
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Sheraton Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
Late 20th Century American Brutalist Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1980s English Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century French Brutalist Sideboards
Elm
1990s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Metal
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Regency Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Copper, Pewter
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century European George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1980s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bakelite, Walnut
1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1970s Unknown Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Oak
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.