Sideboards
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Country Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Glass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1940s American Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Antique Sideboards
1790s American American Colonial Antique Sideboards
Brass
1770s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Oak, Cherry, Elm
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Late 18th Century American Empire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Mirror
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Wood
Late 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ormolu
1780s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Glass
1940s British Federal Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s American Federal Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s American Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1940s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1940s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Nickel
1770s French Directoire Antique Sideboards
Steel
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.