Sideboards
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Neoclassical Sideboards
Brass
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Marble
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1940s French Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
1970s Belgian Primitive Vintage Sideboards
Pine
1990s American Rustic Sideboards
Oak, Paint
1970s American Chippendale Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
1970s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
Early 1800s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Siena Marble
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
20th Century American Georgian Sideboards
Mahogany
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Plywood
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
1960s Danish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Sideboards
Metal
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plastic, Walnut
1850s English George III Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Rosewood, Satinwood
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Pine
Late 20th Century Italian Sideboards
Marble
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Sideboards
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Giltwood, Oak
1970s American French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Sideboards
Cedar
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Copper, Steel
1980s American Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Poplar, Pine
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.