Sideboards
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany, Lacquer
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Bronze, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Acrylic, Hardwood, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Walnut
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cut Glass, Mirror, Maple, Burl
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Modern Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Oak
2010s French Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Leather, Oak
Mid-18th Century Welsh Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Satinwood, Mahogany
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 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.