Sideboards
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Teak
2010s Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century European Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Teak
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1960s Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Plywood
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Burl
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Italian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Nickel
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Elm
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Marble
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Iron
1930s Slovak Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Marble
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Finnish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1950s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Birch, Elm
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
2010s Portuguese Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 1900s Italian Art Deco Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Teak
1980s French Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Glass, Teak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Birch
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.