Sideboards
1960s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Sideboards
Oak
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Mahogany, Maple
1950s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Steel
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1960s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Walnut
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Formica, Oak
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1890s English Antique Sideboards
Pine
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Glass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1990s Belgian Post-Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Mahogany
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Ash
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Beech, Mahogany, Chestnut
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Cut Steel
1940s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Cherry
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
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.