Sideboards
1960s Spanish Baroque Vintage Sideboards
Oak
17th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Pine
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Metal, Tin, Sheet Metal
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bronze, Metal
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Plywood
1960s English Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass, Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
2010s Canadian Organic Modern Sideboards
Cut Steel
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Silver Leaf
1960s French Bohemian Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fruitwood
19th Century American Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Poplar, Pine
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Mahogany, Satinwood
2010s American Organic Modern Sideboards
Steel
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Iron
2010s Italian Sideboards
Iron
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Elm
Early 19th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XV Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Iron
Mid-18th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century Italian Antique Sideboards
Iron
20th Century Sideboards
Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Plywood
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Elm
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
Late 19th Century French Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Iron, Brass
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Hardwood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
2010s Spanish Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Italian Rustic Sideboards
Wood, Pine
Late 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Sideboards
Iron
Mid-20th Century French Sideboards
Bronze
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Oak, Bentwood
19th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Pine
Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Brass
2010s German Art Deco Sideboards
Metal, Chrome
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.