Sideboards
Late 20th Century American Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Steel
1970s Belgian Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine
Late 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Satinwood
Late 20th Century French Empire Revival Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Burl
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 20th Century Philippine Sideboards
Rattan
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Danish Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Wenge
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century British Chinoiserie Sideboards
Elm
Late 20th Century Danish Country Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century American Regency Sideboards
Brass
1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Louis XV Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Belgian Black Marble
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Burl, Lacquer
Late 20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Walnut
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Chinese Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Elm
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1980s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Sideboards
Brass
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.