Sideboards
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stone
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Chrome
1930s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1970s Italian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1980s Regency Revival Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plywood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century American Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s Danish Minimalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Bamboo
1980s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century American Queen Anne Sideboards
Brass
Late 20th Century American Federal Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum, Chrome
1990s Italian Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1930s American Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze, Gold Leaf
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s American Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Mahogany, Maple
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century Belgian Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1930s English Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Oak
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century Unknown Spanish Colonial Sideboards
Metal
1980s American Louis XV Vintage Sideboards
Brass
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.