Sideboards
Early 1900s Italian Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Sheet Metal
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Gold Leaf
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Plywood
1890s Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Plywood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Murano Glass, Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Leather, Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Swedish Gustavian Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Oak, Softwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Birch
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1990s American Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
Early 1900s Austrian Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Maple
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Birdseye Maple
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Gold Leaf
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Birch, Burl
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble
1640s French Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Danish Art Deco Sideboards
Oak, Teak
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood, 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.