Sideboards
Early 20th Century Sideboards
Oak
Mid-19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
1870s French Renaissance Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Italian Sideboards
Rosewood
Late 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Wood
1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
Early 1800s American Hepplewhite Antique Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Oak
20th Century German Art Deco Sideboards
Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1780s English George III Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Cypress
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Brass
18th Century French Antique Sideboards
Marble
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1870s French Antique Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sideboards
Elm
1860s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Ormolu
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Sideboards
Brass
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Sideboards
Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Rosewood
1730s Italian Baroque Antique Sideboards
Metal
Early 20th Century French Sideboards
Marble
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Sideboards
Marble
19th Century Antique Sideboards
Elm
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Maple, Oak, Walnut
Early 17th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
18th Century Antique Sideboards
Wood
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Walnut
1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Sideboards
Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Tulipwood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Gold, Bronze
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 Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Leaf
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch
Late 18th Century Regency Antique Sideboards
Wood
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sideboards
Lacquer
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Satinwood
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Walnut
1940s Italian Rustic Vintage Sideboards
Chestnut
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut, Burl
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.