Sideboards
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s American Vintage Sideboards
19th Century English Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Bronze
1990s French Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Metal
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Siena Marble, Nickel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1820s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Parchment Paper
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
18th Century and Earlier English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Maple, Paint, Walnut
19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
19th Century Italian Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Maple, Paint, Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ormolu
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Sideboards
Marble, Gold Leaf
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1660s Danish Scandinavian Modern Antique Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
2010s American Sideboards
Silver, Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Metal
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1960s American Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Brass Hardware and studs to front and sides
Marked Parzinger Originals
20th Century American Sideboards
1950s Unknown Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
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.