Sideboards
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Chippendale Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Carrara Marble
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1770s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Revival Sideboards
Burl, Walnut
Early 1900s French Regency Revival Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century American American Classical Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Parchment Paper, Glass
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century American Mission Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Oak
1770s Italian Modern Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century German Bauhaus Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century Spanish Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1770s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Regency Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century American Sideboards
Early 20th Century American Rustic Sideboards
Oak
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Burl
Early 20th Century American Edwardian Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
1770s British George III Antique Sideboards
Other
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Revival Sideboards
Mirror, Glass, Burl, Walnut
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Mirror
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Pine, Glass
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
Early 20th Century Italian Country Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Italian Country Sideboards
Glass, Pine
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century Swiss Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1770s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Italian Belle Époque Sideboards
Mirror, Mahogany, Maple, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Revival Sideboards
Crystal
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Revival Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
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.