Sideboards
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
Early 20th Century American Mission Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Late 18th Century American Empire Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Mirror
1950s American Vintage Sideboards
18th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
18th Century and Earlier English Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
Early 19th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Brass
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Canadian Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Late 20th Century Chinese Ming Sideboards
Lacquer
1950s North American Chinoiserie Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
18th Century British Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Oak
1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Lacquer
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Lacquer
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sideboards
Wood
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ebony
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage 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.