Sideboards
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Ash
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple, Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin, Walnut
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Burl
1780s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Amboyna
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s American Vintage Sideboards
Rattan
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
Late 18th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Nickel, Bronze
1940s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Ash
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Stained Glass, Walnut, Burl
1940s American Federal Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bakelite, Wood, Burl
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Sycamore
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
1780s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1940s Italian Neoclassical Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1790s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Paldao
Late 18th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
1780s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Fruitwood, Walnut
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Goatskin
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.