Sideboards
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
2010s Ukrainian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Birch
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1830s Italian Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Granite
2010s Ukrainian Art Deco Sideboards
Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Spanish Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore, Ivory, Macassar
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Plate, Stainless Steel
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Elm, Amboyna
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Sycamore
2010s Ukrainian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Nickel
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1910s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Walnut
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bakelite, Wood, Burl
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Gold Plate
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
2010s Canadian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
Late 20th Century European Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Chrome
20th Century German Art Deco Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mirror, Wood, Mahogany, Lacquer
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
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.