Sideboards
Early 20th Century American Mission Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century American Sideboards
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Metal
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Pearwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1860s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
1880s Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Lacquer, Paint, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Ebony, Mahogany, Sycamore
2010s Italian Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Oak
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Fruitwood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Danish Sideboards
Wood, Oak, Paint
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Sideboards
Cedar
1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Sideboards
Zitan
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Brass
1910s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1920s Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Sideboards
Lacquer
Early 20th Century British Tudor Sideboards
Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
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.