Sideboards
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Beech, Mahogany
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plywood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Burl, Mirror
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ceramic, Wood
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Poplar
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Copper
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Pine
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Sapele Wood
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ceramic, Oak
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Burl
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Walnut, Pine, Glass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wool
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Iron
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.