Sideboards
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1970s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Elm
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Nickel
Late 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Marble
1960s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Travertine, Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome, Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
1940s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Argentine Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
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.