OUR founder
DOMINIQUE SCHURMAN
Founder and President
Dominique Schurman has grown up in a family whose love for art, paper, writing and personal connections has always been an integral part of their life.
She spent her childhood surrounded by art. With family still living in Europe, Dominique was able to travel to Europe throughout her youth and on those trips, she would tour museums with her mother at every stop. As such, she was lucky to be exposed to the world of visual beauty that evokes emotion at an early age.
These experiences, coupled with a fierce entrepreneurial spirit, sparked Dominique’s career in the family business. The original company, Marcel Schurman Company, named after Dominique’s father, was an import and wholesale business that specialized in high quality, beautifully designed greeting cards, stationery and gift wrap imported from around the world. A retail store called PAPYRUS® was started by Margrit Schurman in 1975.
With her love for paper, design and writing, Dominique joined the company to work with her parents in 1982. During her career, Dominique grew the business into an international company growing both the wholesale and retail divisions to over $150 million in sales and expanding the store fleet to over 400 stores in North America. Dominique developed the legacy brands and created new brands such as PAPER DESTINY, XOXO Dominique, and NIQUEA.D which is her signature brand and is the culmination of Dominique’s love for tasteful, and sophisticated design. Her passion for great design and fine paper continues today as a new NIQUEA.D collection is being launched in partnership with Design Group.