Sideboards
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood, Walnut
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Lucite, Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Oak, Teak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Rosewood, Sycamore
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone, Marble, Brass, Chrome
20th Century American Rococo Revival Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
20th Century Sideboards
Oak
1920s Polish Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak, Glass
1950s North American Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century American Neoclassical Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mother-of-Pearl, Art Glass, Elm, Mahogany
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Baroque Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Wood, Oak
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Wood, Elm
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Maple
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Glass, Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Belgian Sideboards
Teak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak, Walnut
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
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.