Sideboards
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Macassar, Mahogany
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s English Egyptian Revival Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Crystal
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Dutch Country Sideboards
Pine
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
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
1950s American Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Victorian Sideboards
Fruitwood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Bone, Fruitwood
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Palisander
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Walnut
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1920s English Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
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.