Sideboards
19th Century French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1910s Edwardian Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
20th Century Sideboards
Teak
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Walnut
1860s Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
19th Century Louis Philippe Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Finnish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1970s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
Late 19th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Maple, Parchment Paper
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
1850s English Regency Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Lacquer
Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Iron
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
17th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Wood
1810s Irish Regency Antique Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1960s Swiss Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Birch, Teak
1920s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Spanish Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
19th Century French Empire Antique Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-19th Century Mongolian Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Nutwood
1980s Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Chrome
1820s American Sheraton Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Italian Sideboards
Wood
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass, Copper, Pewter
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.