Sideboards
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Birch, Walnut
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
1920s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Lacquer, Parchment Paper
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century French Brutalist Sideboards
Wrought Iron
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Elm
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Marble, Steel
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Wood, Mahogany, Lacquer
Early 20th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 1900s English Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Marble
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century North American American Classical Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Marble, Steel
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Chippendale Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Mission Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Rosewood, Amboyna
Early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Sideboards
Stone, Marble
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore, Ivory, Macassar
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s Scottish Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XIV Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Chinese Sideboards
Elm
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Wood
1920s Scottish Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1910s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Walnut
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Other
Early 20th Century English Queen Anne Sideboards
Stained Glass, Mahogany
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Sideboards
Marble
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Mahogany
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Sideboards
Mirror, Rosewood
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century North American Sideboards
Brass
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1910s American Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century European Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
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.