Sideboards
Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Elm, Walnut, Burl
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Pine
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Travertine
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel, Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 18th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Wood, Ash
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Pine
1970s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Belgian Primitive Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s European Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
Mid-17th Century Charles II Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Formica, Oak
1970s Czech Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
1770s English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-18th Century English Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Cane, Walnut
Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
1970s Belgian Regency Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Burl, Lacquer
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Wood
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Plastic
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Central American Baroque Antique Sideboards
Wood, Pine, Paint
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1790s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1970s European Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Stone
1970s Organic Modern Vintage Sideboards
Granite, Chrome
1970s European Organic Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s French Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1970s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
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.