Sideboards
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s American Art Deco Sideboards
Lacquer, Poplar, Maple
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Maple
1810s Swedish Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Pine, Lacquer
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Elm
1850s Italian Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Swiss Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Maple, Hardwood, Walnut
2010s Federal Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century American Modern Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
19th Century English George IV Antique Sideboards
Pine
1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Paint
20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Iron
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Scottish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Brazilian Sideboards
Hardwood, Plywood
2010s Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1990s American Modern Sideboards
Glass, Laminate
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Sideboards
Stone
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Philippine British Colonial Sideboards
Leather, Coconut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Travertine
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Pine, Lacquer
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Chinese Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Iron
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
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.