Sideboards
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
20th Century French Sideboards
Brass
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Walnut
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Lacquer
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Stone
1970s French Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1940s French Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
20th Century British Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
1990s American Brutalist Sideboards
Metal, Cut Steel
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Steel
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch, Lacquer
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Maple, Lacquer
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century French Regency Revival Sideboards
Iron
20th Century Belgian Brutalist Sideboards
Aluminum
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Ash
Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stone, Brass
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
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.