Sideboards
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Victorian Sideboards
Fruitwood
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Burl
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Rattan, Oak
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Bone, Fruitwood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Empire Sideboards
Walnut
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Unknown Louis XVI Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Elm
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak, Mirror
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Macassar, Mahogany
1920s Polish Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Belgian Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century British Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Sycamore
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Amboyna
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Oak, Glass
Early 1900s English Adam Style Antique Sideboards
Satinwood
1920s French Directoire Vintage Sideboards
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Beech, Pine
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Cherry, Mahogany
1910s Federal Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sideboards
Copper
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century American Hepplewhite Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Czech Bauhaus Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s British Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Pine
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Sideboards
Oak
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
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.