Sideboards
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Empire Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Lacquer
20th Century Singaporean Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Teak
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Country Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Jugendstil Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine, Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1910s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Modern Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Leather, Wood
Late 20th Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1960s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century American Queen Anne Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Maple
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1970s European Organic Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Oak, Plywood
20th Century Japanese Meiji Sideboards
Bamboo
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm, Lacquer
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.