Sideboards
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Palisander
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s French Beaux Arts Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Belgian Black Marble
Early 1900s Romanian Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Silver Plate
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Bohemian Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
Early 20th Century English Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Mexican Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Felt, Wood, Teak
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Sycamore, Pine
Early 20th Century French Folk Art Sideboards
Wood
1970s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Rattan, Burlap
1970s Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate
1970s English Country Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Metal
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Canadian Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Granite
Early 20th Century Swedish Neoclassical Sideboards
Birch
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XV Sideboards
Oak
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
1970s European Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Danish Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Pine
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Pine
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Country Sideboards
Metal, 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.