Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ceramic
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Velvet
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Mahogany
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin
21st Century and Contemporary Mauritian Modern Sideboards
Stone
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Wood, Sycamore
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel
1930s British Georgian Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ceramic, Wood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mirror, Walnut
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rattan
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rattan
20th Century British Sideboards
Bamboo
1970s European Vintage Sideboards
Rattan
20th Century French Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Sideboards
Rattan, Bamboo
Late 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Goatskin
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rattan
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
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.