Sideboards
2010s Italian Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Brass
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal, Copper
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Other Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Other Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Other Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s American Post-Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Mexican Organic Modern Sideboards
Hardwood, Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Wood, Teak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Stone, Travertine, Marble
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary American Regency Sideboards
Nickel
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Mexican Organic Modern Sideboards
Hardwood, Walnut
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Italian Sideboards
Glass
2010s European Sideboards
Wood
2010s European Sideboards
Wool
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Rattan, Walnut
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Rustic Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Rustic Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Country Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Moorish Sideboards
Wood
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.