Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century American Louis XVI Sideboards
Brass
1920s English Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century Chinese Sideboards
Elm
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Metal
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Ebony, Mahogany, Sycamore
1920s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm, Lacquer
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Walnut, Burl
1920s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Rosewood, Burl
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Birch, Burl
Early 20th Century English George III Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1930s European Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Satinwood
1930s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Wood
Early 20th Century Chinese Sideboards
Wood
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1910s Sheraton Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s English George III Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Sideboards
Lacquer
1920s French Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century Belgian Renaissance Revival 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.