Sideboards
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
2010s Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Plate, Stainless Steel
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary European Art Deco Sideboards
Cane, Glass, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Mirror, Oak
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Pearwood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Dutch Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Lacquer
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Onyx, Bronze
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal, Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer, Amboyna
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Lacquer
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Mirror, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Macassar
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Nutwood, Lacquer
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Elm
1940s Belgian Art Deco 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.