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Stewart Wurtz is a studio furniture maker based in
Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
. He has exhibited locally in the Pacific Northwest and nationally at a variety of galleries and museums. Stewart Wurtz was born and raised in Maine. He worked for Thomas Moser Cabinetmakers before he started architecture school at the Boston Architectural Center. After a year or so in architecture school, he enrolled at
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in the Program in Artisanry headed furniture maker
Jere Osgood Jere Osgood (born 1936) is an American studio furniture maker, and teacher of furniture and woodworking. He taught for many years in the . Early life and education Jere Osgood was born in 1936 and raised in Staten Island, New York. He studied ar ...
. Wurtz earned his B.F.A. in Furniture Design in 1984. Two years later Wurtz moved to
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and opened a studio to design and build custom furniture. Wurtz has exhibited at Pritam & Eames in East Hampton, NY, and in Maine, Pennsylvania, California, and Washington. Wurtz is a member of
Northwest Woodworkers Gallery Northwest Woodworkers Gallery (formerly Northwest Gallery of Fine Woodworking) in downtown Seattle, is the oldest and largest woodworking cooperative in the United States. Started in 1980 in the Pioneer Square neighborhood by a small group of stu ...
(formerly Northwest Fine Woodworking).


Further reading

* Scott Landis, "Design in Context: Woodworkers of the Northwest," in ''Fine Woodworking Design Book Five'' Taunton Press, Newtown CT, 1990. * Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, ''Furniture Studio: Materials, Craft, and Architecture''
University of Washington Press The University of Washington Press is an American academic publishing house. The organization is a division of the University of Washington, based in Seattle. Although the division functions autonomously, they have worked to assist the universit ...
, Seattle and London, 2012. pp. 59–64, 110–122.


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* Living people American woodworkers American furniture designers American furniture makers Pacific Northwest artists Artists from Seattle Year of birth missing (living people) {{Woodworking-stub