| Peter Jon Pearce | |
| Birth Date: | October 8, 1936 |
| Birth Place: | Geneva, New York, United States |
| Occupation: | American product designer, author, and inventor. |
Peter Jon Pearce (October 8, 1936) is an American product designer, author, and inventor.
He is the designer of the Cachet Chair, Manufactured by Steelcase,[1] as well as the designer of the Curved Space Diamond Structure, a playground climbing sculpture, installed at playgrounds throughout the U.S., The Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan, where it has been a popular attraction since 1978.[2] He earned his degree in product design from IIT Institute of Design.
Pearce was offered a job with Charles Eames after Eames saw the bent-plywood lounge chair he made in college.[3] While employed by Eames he contributed to the following projects:
-Made adaptations to the design of the furniture bases for the "Aluminum Group Furniture".
-Member of the Eames design and production crew for the film "Glimpses of the U.S.A."
-One of four team members who produced the prototypes of the "Time-Life Chair and Stool", designed for the Time & Life Building lobbies.
-Staff member involved in the development of the 1961 "La Fonda Chair", made for the La Fonda del Sol restaurant which opened in New York's Time & Life Building, in 1961.
-Staff member involved in the development of the "Eames Contract Storage" units.
-One of four team members who produced the prototype of the "Eames Tandem Sling Seating", initially installed at O'Hare and Dulles airports.
-Staff member involved in the development of the 3473 Sofa.[4]
He was an assistant to Buckminster Fuller[5] [6] and is the author of several books including "Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design".[7] His focus on high-performance design, and on achieving sustainability in his designs, is seen in the methodologies used in the design of the Cachet Chair,[8] his work on Biosphere 2, and in the design of the Pearce Ecohouse. The Pearce Ecohouse design, emulates the hexagonal structures of nature and is a green structure built from glass and steel using prefab construction. It is solar powered and will use net-zero energy.[9]