Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Plywood
1960s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s American Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Beech
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Italian Sideboards
Wood
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Seagrass, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
1940s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1960s French Vintage Sideboards
Iron
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Felt, Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Italian Louis XVI Sideboards
Wood
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Walnut, Burl
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Scottish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century North American Regency Sideboards
Wood, Paint
1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century English British Colonial Sideboards
Wire, Metal
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American American Colonial Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Italian Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Beech, Plywood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Palisander
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mirror, Teak
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Belgian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Beech
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Swiss Vintage Sideboards
Metal
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.