Sideboards
Late 19th Century French Industrial Antique Sideboards
Beech
Early 20th Century American Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Industrial Sideboards
Brass
1930s German Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Oak
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s Ukrainian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Industrial Sideboards
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
2010s American Industrial Sideboards
Brass, Steel
1950s Belgian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Beech
Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sideboards
Iron
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Industrial Sideboards
Metal
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1860s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Sideboards
Wood
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany, Burl
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Sideboards
Wood
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century French Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Glass, Rosewood, Burl
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Sideboards
Wood, Elm, Lacquer
1940s French Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Beech
1950s Belgian Industrial Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Beech
Early 20th Century North American Industrial Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century American Industrial Antique Sideboards
Pine
20th Century German Industrial Sideboards
Pine, Wood
Early 20th Century European Industrial Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Metal
Late 19th Century French Industrial Antique Sideboards
Pine, Elm
20th Century French Industrial Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 20th Century American Industrial Sideboards
Maple
Mid-20th Century European Industrial Sideboards
Beech, Pine
Mid-20th Century German Industrial Sideboards
Metal
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.