Sideboards
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Asian Chinoiserie Sideboards
Walnut
1960s American Baroque Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Glass
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Russian Organic Modern Sideboards
Metal, Enamel
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rattan, Oak
1960s Belgian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Parchment Paper
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
2010s Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s American Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian French Provincial Sideboards
Pine
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Beech, Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Formica, Teak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Beech, Oak, Walnut
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
2010s Asian Chinoiserie Sideboards
Walnut
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s American Organic Modern Sideboards
Smoked Glass, Oak, Walnut
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Iron
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
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.