Sideboards
1940s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century British Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Chinoiserie Sideboards
Brass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s German Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Teak
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum, Silver
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
18th Century European Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Rosewood, Satinwood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1950s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Elm
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1950s Swiss Vintage Sideboards
Seagrass, Wood
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century Mexican Brutalist Sideboards
Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Sideboards
Wood
1950s Scandinavian Scandinavian 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.