Sideboards
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s English Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Wood
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Pearwood
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Brass
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Carrara Marble, Metal
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Oak, Plywood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Metal, Brass
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
Early 19th Century Welsh Antique Sideboards
Pine
1870s English Victorian Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Wood
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sideboards
Brass
2010s American American Classical Sideboards
Metal
Early 2000s George III Sideboards
Mahogany
20th Century English Art Deco Sideboards
Elm, Yew
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Brutalist Sideboards
Oak
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
Early 20th Century Jacobean Sideboards
Oak, Walnut
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Chrome
19th Century British Antique Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Rosewood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Mahogany
1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Teak
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sideboards
Oak
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Metal
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Sideboards
Hardwood, Lacquer
1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Teak
Late 18th Century British Antique Sideboards
Brass
Mid-20th Century Spanish Sideboards
Metal
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.