Sideboards
19th Century British Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Sideboards
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Mauritian Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Mauritian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Rustic Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Glass
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century British Chippendale Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Rosewood
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
19th Century American Victorian Antique Sideboards
Marble
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Parchment Paper, Maple, Mirror
Late 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 1800s Dutch Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
18th Century British Country Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Paldao
Mid-20th Century Italian Anglo-Japanese Sideboards
Metal
Late 18th Century American Empire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Mirror
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Maple, Walnut
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Glass
19th Century Burmese Anglo Raj Antique Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
18th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Sideboards
Teak
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 19th Century British Country Antique Sideboards
Faux Bamboo, Pine
Early 20th Century Renaissance Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century British Antique Sideboards
20th Century British Queen Anne Sideboards
Pine
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Wood
20th Century English Regency Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Scottish Regency Antique Sideboards
Walnut
18th Century European Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Rosewood, Satinwood
2010s French Sideboards
Wood
20th Century British Queen Anne Sideboards
Pine
19th Century French Charles X Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century British Regency Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Wood
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century American Rustic Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
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.