Sideboards
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Hardwood
Early 18th Century Welsh Georgian Antique Sideboards
Oak
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Wood
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
2010s American Post-Modern Sideboards
Oak
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sideboards
Steel
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Bronze
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak, Birch
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
2010s Canadian Modern Sideboards
Ash, Glass
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Sideboards
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Iron
2010s Mexican Sideboards
Stainless Steel
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Stainless Steel
2010s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Ash
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Birch, Oak
1970s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
1990s Art Deco Sideboards
Silver Leaf
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, 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
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
20th Century French Sideboards
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Sycamore
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Brass, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Sideboards
Nickel
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Chrome, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sideboards
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Sideboards
Walnut
2010s Mexican Brutalist Sideboards
Wood, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Steel
19th Century Chinese Antique Sideboards
Elm
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.