Sideboards
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1980s German Vintage Sideboards
Ash
2010s French Sideboards
Travertine
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Sideboards
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Other Sideboards
Glass, Wood
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Country Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1980s Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1960s Scottish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Iron
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Cane, Teak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 2000s American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Steel, Cut Steel, Stainless Steel
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine
20th Century American Mission Sideboards
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Concrete
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Steel
2010s Czech Modern Sideboards
Wood, Birch
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Steel
20th Century Regency Sideboards
Brass
19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plastic, Wood, Oak, Plywood
1970s American Georgian 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.