Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern Sideboards
Elm
2010s Balkan Modern Sideboards
Leather, Wood
2010s Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Serbian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ash, Oak, Walnut
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut, Lacquer
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Reclaimed Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Balkan Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Gold Leaf
2010s Mexican Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
2010s Balkan Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Elm
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s Danish Sideboards
Teak, Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Travertine
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Minimalist Sideboards
Composition, Metal
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Asian Minimalist Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
2010s Regency Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Gold, Bronze
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Minimalist Sideboards
Composition, Metal
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Copper, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s Danish Post-Modern Sideboards
Steel
2010s Indian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Chestnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Chinoiserie Sideboards
Marble
Early 2000s American Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Danish Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Sideboards
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Metal, Tin, Sheet Metal
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Asian Organic Modern Sideboards
Ash
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.