Sideboards
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century European Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Brass
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Fruitwood, Oak
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1860s English Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1880s English Campaign Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
Late 19th Century British Late Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century English Empire Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century Welsh Antique Sideboards
Pine
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Sapele Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Iron
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
Mid-19th Century American American Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1830s French Antique Sideboards
Iron
19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Wood, Pine
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century French Country Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Rosewood, Walnut, Burl
19th Century Swedish Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1950s Belgian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Central American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron, Brass
Mid-19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine, Paint
Early 19th Century American Federal Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1880s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
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.