Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Birch
1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Steel
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Formica, Beech
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Glass
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Wood, Rosewood
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak, Mirror
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Wood, Rosewood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Elm
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Ebony, Satinwood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Oak, Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1990s Italian French Provincial Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
1960s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rattan, Wood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Faux Leather, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
20th Century American Rococo Revival Sideboards
Oak
1990s Belgian Post-Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Louis XVI Sideboards
Ebony
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone, Marble, Brass, Chrome
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century 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.