Woodworker’s Journal
“Mark Lackley: Gambling on a High-End Niche”

“Some painter once said ‘I’ve spent my whole life learning to paint like a child,’ the idea being that you must reach a certain skill level before you can be free to create. Similarly, I think the key to woodworking is gaining enough skill to be able to work from the heart. When that happens, you can execute whatever you envision without being constrained by the nuts and bolts of building.”
— Mark Lackley

Architectural Digest
“Know When to Hold ’em”

“Mark Lackley‘s reproductions have always had great lines and details—lovely turnings and inlays. He now makes fantastic poker tables. From his Vermont woodshop, Lackley handcrafts one-of-a-kind luxury poker tables. The Texas Hold ’em table has a burl madrone top with ebony inlays of the suits of cards, two pedestals of sapele mahogany and a leather armrest around the edge.”
— David Michael Wood, “Discoveries by Designers”

Men’s Journal
“A Card Table with Class”

“….veneering many [poker tables] with an exotic African wood called sapele (a cousin to mahogany) and accenting the rails with herringbone and ebony inlays. If you thought of your buddies bringing their beers anywhere near this lush felt makes you cringe, no worries. The table has slide-out drink holders.”

Robb Report
“Sport: Showing His Handiwork”

“One such order is for an Art Deco–style poker table. ‘This is the kind of stuff that we really excel at and we really get off on,’ he (Mark) says, as he flips through a reference book of Ruhlmann furniture, the style after which he will model the table. ‘We take traditional pieces—forms built for hundreds of years—and give them our own flair.’”
— Shaun Tolson

Best of Vermont Showcase
with VT Senator Patrick Leahy

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy playing on one of Mark’s poker tables, at an event showcasing Made in Vermont products.