Sideboards
18th Century Slovak Rococo Antique Sideboards
Gold Plate
1920s Polish Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
Mid-20th Century Swedish Rococo Sideboards
Birch
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s Danish Rococo Vintage Sideboards
Birch
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Birch
2010s Indian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Sheet Metal
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Bronze, Brass
2010s Indian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Lapis Lazuli, Metal
1920s Swiss Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Rococo Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Bronze
1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
2010s Indian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Malachite
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Burl, Walnut
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Beech
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Sideboards
Lacquer
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
1930s Belgian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Wood
1960s American Jugendstil Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century European Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Oak
18th Century Dutch Rococo Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Mid-20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Rosewood, Walnut
Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Marble, Silver Plate
Early 1900s French Rococo Antique Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Copper
18th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Mahogany, Walnut
Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Glass, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Sideboards
Marble, Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Danish Art Nouveau Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Sideboards
Pine
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.