Sideboards
1740s British George II Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1780s British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Chrome
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Satinwood
18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1980s Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century British Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum, Chrome
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze, Gold Leaf
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Satinwood, Walnut
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Satinwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Leather, Mahogany, Maple
Late 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1800s Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1930s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s American Georgian Sideboards
Brass
Early 19th Century English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s European Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Georgian Sideboards
Wood
1820s English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
19th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Pearwood
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Copper
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Birch
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Amboyna
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Stone, Marble, Brass, Chrome
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco 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.