Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Steel
1840s English Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Crystal, Brass
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century English Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s North American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1860s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Pine
Early 2000s Slovak Modern Sideboards
Paint
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1890s Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Mexican Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
1970s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Rattan, Burlap
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Sycamore, Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Sideboards
Wood, Leather
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Felt, Wood, Teak
Early 20th Century French Folk Art Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1980s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1970s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
2010s American American Craftsman Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
Late 20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak, Lacquer
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Palisander
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.