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Mark Laub jumped off the corporate railway 12 years ago and started a small furniture studio called The Board Room. He was learning little on the rails and now learns his life lessons by exploring the ditches.

Laub’s studio is in a quiet Minnesota forest on the Rum River. It’s easy to see how his work celebrates the sublime beauty of nature and reflects its showy diversity. He carefully uses contrasting woods, gentle curves, floral inlays, aged copper, brass, glass, carving, and unexpected smile producing surprises to create his interpretation of nature’s beauty.


Laub believes that woodworking, nature, and all of life are hugely impacted by detail and subtlety. He attempts, as William Blake suggested “to see the world in a grain of sand”. When not building furniture, Laub enjoys a good (or cheap) bottle of wine and listening to music. When the two are combined, he will endlessly argue with himself as to the greatest piece of music ever written: as of yesterday it’s still a tie between Chopin’s “Fantaisie Impromptu” and Neil Young’s “Hurricane”.

Gender: Male