Sideboards
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s South African Modern Sideboards
Steel, Brass
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Hungarian Country Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s British Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Neoclassical Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Rattan, Oak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1800s English Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Wood
2010s French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Straw, Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Brass
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Glass
2010s Swedish Modern Sideboards
Elm, Burl
2010s Italian Minimalist Sideboards
Brass
Early 2000s Austrian Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese French Provincial Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal, Bronze
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Pine
2010s Russian Organic Modern Sideboards
Metal, Enamel
Early 19th Century British French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
Early 19th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1820s American Federal Antique Sideboards
Cherry
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Dutch Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Asian Chinoiserie Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
1810s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Sideboards
Brass
1810s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Anglo-Japanese Sideboards
Brass
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.