Paul Schürch

About

PAUL SCHÜRCH is the proprietor of Schürch Woodwork and is a well-respected, European-trained master craftsman, instructor, and designer with his marquetry art and furniture on exhibit in public and private collections around the world. His formal training includes a 1972 Swiss apprenticeship as a church organ builder and continuing journeyman studies at the International Boat Building Training Center in England, and Marquetry then stone inlay in Italy. Paul regularly spends time in Europe to study and preserve the art of marquetry and stone inlay and continues to teach new styles and techniques of surface decoration and furniture design. He has produced several videos and books, and has been teaching seminars at MASW since 1997. As a consultant and a contributing educator to the trades, he has been displayed on covers of Fine Woodworking, CWB, Woodworker West, and has been featured in many other magazines, design books, and coffee table books, here and abroad, since 1985. He has won many awards for his art and furniture, and occasionally exhibits his pieces at selected galleries across the USA and Europe. His shop is currently located on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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