Crafted by Nature,
Curated by Marchand
Beneath the Grain.
Welcome to Marchand Luxury Oak,
where luxury is in the details.
Marchand was born in the South Island with a simple but powerful mission: to bring back quality in New Zealand construction. Over the past decade, we've seen a decline in flooring standards - materials being stripped back, corners cut, and quality sacrificed. We're here to change that.
With over 40 years of experience in construction and property development, the Christie brothers knew the industry inside out. Frustrated by the rising costs and declining quality of European oak, so integral to Central Otago's architecture, they set out to find a better solution. They travelled overseas, sourced premium oak themselves, and Marchand was born in 2018.
Marchand's offerings have since expanded into a curated range of high-quality, beautifully crafted oak interiors. Their commitment? Delivering exceptional timber that meets their standards and a fair price they always wished for in their own projects. This ethos is continued today by Julia & her team of experts.
Our engineered oak collections are sourced from forests in Europe and curated for New Zealand’s architecture and climate. We only supply the highest quality oak in New Zealand, offering 20mm flooring with a 6mm oak wear layer as standard. With exceptional structural stability, extra-long formats, and custom colour options, Marchand's oak boards are designed to elevate every detail of a space.
Sustainability & Social Responsibility
The most sustainable floor is the one you don’t have to replace.
Marchand’s “Grove to Grave” philosophy is about specifying flooring properly from the outset. It means looking beyond surface claims and assessing the full lifecycle, from responsible forestry through to long-term carbon storage and performance in New Zealand conditions. When you account for manufacturing, transport, and in-market use, engineered European oak can act as a genuine carbon sink, but only if it is designed to last.
For builders, designers, and architects, the key shift is this: sustainability is not defined at install, it is defined over decades. The biggest environmental cost in flooring is replacement. Every time a floor is ripped out, you reset the carbon cycle, new materials, freight, labour, and waste. That is where most “sustainable” products fall short.
This is why wear layer matters. A 6mm European oak layer on a 20mm board changes the specification entirely. Instead of a product that lasts 10 to 20 years, you are specifying a floor that can be refinished multiple times and realistically perform for 60+ years. It becomes part of the architecture, not a consumable.
Alongside lifecycle performance, verified sourcing matters. Marchand is a licensed FSC Promotional Licence Holder (FSC®-N004872), with our oak sourced in line with FSC standards.
FSC certification ensures that materials are sourced in a way that protects biodiversity, respects Indigenous rights, and supports sustainable forestry practices. In a market where sustainability claims are often surface-level, specifiers can be confident that the FSC certified products they select meet the world’s most rigorous environmental and social standards for forest management.
