Sideboards
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Agate, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Ash, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian International Style Sideboards
Marble
2010s British Modern Sideboards
Resin, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood
1880s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Formica, Oak, Teak
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Ukrainian Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Metal
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Agate, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese George III Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Maple, Nutwood, Spruce
Mid-19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Copper
2010s European Modern Sideboards
Rattan, Oak, Lacquer
2010s Italian International Style Sideboards
Marble
1890s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass, Bronze, Zinc
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian International Style Sideboards
Marble, Metal
19th Century Danish Antique Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
2010s Italian Sideboards
Iron, Steel, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Marble, Metal
2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
1890s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wenge, Walnut
1860s French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Enamel, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1890s French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Welsh Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary European Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1850s Italian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary European Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Sideboards
Pine
2010s Italian Sideboards
Oak
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.