Sideboards
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Pine
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Macassar, Mahogany
1920s French Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1920s British Jacobean Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Canadian Victorian Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century English Adam Style Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Central American Empire Revival Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak, Pine
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Rosewood
Early 20th Century English Sideboards
Oak
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
1920s French French Provincial Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm, Lacquer
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sideboards
Other
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XV Sideboards
Oak
Early 20th Century Louis XV Sideboards
Fruitwood
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Sideboards
Birch, Mahogany, Rosewood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Maple
Early 1900s Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique Sideboards
Walnut, Fir
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sideboards
Bronze
Early 1900s Italian Country Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Burl
Early 20th Century Unknown Neoclassical Sideboards
Marble, Granite, Stone, Brass, Metal
Early 1900s Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sideboards
Other
1910s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Early 20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Marble
Early 1900s French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s Dutch Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Macassar, Oak
1910s Sheraton Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1920s English George III Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1910s English Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s Dutch Arts and Crafts Antique Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Sideboards
Metal
Early 1900s French Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 20th Century Scandinavian Baroque Sideboards
Brass
Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Sideboards
Birch
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
Early 20th Century American Empire Sideboards
Metal
Early 1900s Austrian Art Deco Antique 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.