Description
About
RECLAIMED ANTIQUE FRENCH OAK
ABOUT US
WELCOME TO FRENCH OAK TRADING COMPANY
THE PRODUCTS
At the French Oak Trading Company we offer architects, designers and professionals in the building industry, the unique opportunity to access:
Quality reclaimed antique French Oak boards, beams, cladding and parquetry,
Extra wide new French Oak planks,
Antique French Oak bespoke furniture fashioned by craftsman who are passionate about up-cycling and materials re-use,
Salvaged antiquities, including reclaimed antique encaustic tiles, reclaimed French terracotta tiles, eclectic design elements and antique doors.
All our products have been sourced by our team of professionals and reclaimed with a focus on quality, with an understanding of the inherent beauty and/or artistry in the product and to fuel individuality, creativity and innovation within your design experience.
EVERY GRAIN HAS A STORY …
THE JOURNEY
Through our European salvage expeditions (conducted in partnership with the Salvage Europe group), our team of professionals have hand picked unique building products that are individual, rare and rich in provenance, to enhance your building projects. Each item adding character, timeless appeal and the opportunity to creatively explore an essential link to history.
From antique French Oak that has journeyed over hundreds of years, from its first planting to perhaps housing families, providing children with a vehicle for learning, sheltering animals or the creation of some other chapter in history; to antiquities that celebrate the skills of artisans past; and lastly to enabling us to continue the journey through the sympathetic upcycling of materials to create modern bespoke furniture where the spirit of the timber lives on.
Our ability to reclaim the timeless beauty captured in these products and hand crafted architectural design elements and translate them into modern day projects, is only bounded by our imagination and our ability to embrace creativity.
… AND THE STORY CONTINUES
THE TEAM
Owners Michael and Toula Roden are joined by interior decorators and furniture makers (specialising in hand crafted recycled timber furniture), to form the French Oak Trading Company team.
We are inspired by antique treasures and how they can be incorporated into modern architecture and design.
We have been fortunate to build collaborations with similar minded individuals in our team, across the globe, to source and up cycle quality products that are unique, timeless in their beauty and seeped in provenance.
Finding and perpetuating the inherent beauty in reclaimed antique French Oak is truly the “result of a global journey througharchitectural history”.
We invite you to join us in bringing the beauty of the past to your architectural and interior projects of today.