Sideboards
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Teak
19th Century English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1950s French Modern Vintage Sideboards
Elm
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Brass
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Sideboards
Teak
Late 18th Century French Provincial Antique Sideboards
Oak
19th Century European Baroque Antique Sideboards
Hardwood
19th Century American Primitive Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Swedish Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Late 20th Century French Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Raffia, Wood
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
20th Century Sideboards
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Sideboards
Steel
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Marble, Metal, Brass
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Formica, Walnut
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Gold Leaf
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Maple
1950s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Dutch Vintage Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sideboards
Laminate, Wood
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Travertine
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Sideboards
Ebony, Mahogany
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sideboards
Oak, Satinwood
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Sideboards
Wood
1990s Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Wood
1950s Vintage Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
1880s Dutch Antique Sideboards
Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Stone, Brass
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1960s Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1810s German Biedermeier Antique Sideboards
Cherry
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1870s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
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.