Sideboards
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Gold Plate
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Burl
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Parchment Paper
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut, Glass
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
2010s Canadian Art Deco Sideboards
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Mirror
2010s Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Sideboards
Cane, Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Pine, Glass
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Goatskin
2010s American Industrial Sideboards
Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1940s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany, Maple, Glass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Silver Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Satin, Mahogany
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mohair, Burl
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony, Amboyna
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.