Sideboards
20th Century French Rococo Revival Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary European Gustavian Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Mongolian Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Birch, Teak
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s Swedish Gustavian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Queen Anne Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Wood, Paint
2010s Italian Sideboards
Leather, Glass, Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stone
Late 20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Sideboards
Marble
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1660s German Mid-Century Modern Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s American Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Pine
1960s Central American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Chrome
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Nutwood
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Crystal, Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1820s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century French Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut, Wood
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Iron
20th Century Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Bamboo
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Iron
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Teak
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.