Sideboards
1980s Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Bronze, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Maple
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1990s Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold, Brass
Late 19th Century British Jacobean Antique Sideboards
Oak
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood, Beech, Oak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
18th Century European Antique Sideboards
Oak
1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Mid-18th Century Welsh Country Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Pine
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
19th Century American Industrial Antique Sideboards
Bronze, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass
1950s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Metal, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
1950s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
2010s Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1960s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Gold Leaf
20th Century French Art Deco Sideboards
Nickel, Bronze
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.