Sideboards
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1940s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Wood
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Crystal, Metal
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Spanish Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Spanish Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
1940s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Spanish Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, Glass, Satinwood
1940s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1790s Scottish George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Mahogany
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Parchment Paper
1790s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1780s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Fir
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s French Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Maple
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Oak
1770s Swiss Baroque Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Birch
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
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.