Sideboards
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Metal
1970s German Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Fiberglass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
Early 2000s Belgian Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
1960s European Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Sideboards
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s Lithuanian Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1990s Belgian Post-Modern Sideboards
Aluminum
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s South African Minimalist Sideboards
Granite
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Marble, Metal
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Sideboards
Marble, Steel
2010s Sideboards
Aluminum
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Ash
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Lacquer
20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Lucite, Plexiglass, Glass
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Plastic
1950s Dutch Vintage Sideboards
Metal
2010s German Sideboards
Resin, Foam
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s French Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Ash
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Opal, Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Fabric, Glass, Lacquer
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Metal
Early 2000s Portuguese Sideboards
Lacquer
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Steel, Cut Steel, Brass, Metal, Stainless Steel
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
2010s French Neoclassical Sideboards
Iron
20th Century Italian Modern Sideboards
Acrylic
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.