Peter Jon Pearce

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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,{{cite web|title=Peter Jon Pearce|url=http://www.dwell.com/people/peter-jon-pearce}} 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.{{cite web|title=Peter Pearce's "Curved Space Diamond Structure"|url=http://www.play-scapes.com/correspondent_post/peter-pearces-curved-space-diamond-structure/|author=Amber Dohrenwend}} 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.{{cite book|last=Neuhart|first=Marilyn Neuhart, with John|title=The story of Eames Furniture|year=2010|publisher=Gestalten|location=Berlin|isbn=9783899552300|pages=200–207}} 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.{{cite book|last=Eames|first=John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray|title=Eames design : the work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames|year=1989|publisher=H.N. Abrams|location=New York|isbn=9780810908796|pages=227, 241, 249, 253, 265, 275, 283|edition=3. printing}}

He was an assistant to Buckminster Fuller{{cite journal|title=Objects of Desire: Molecular Level|journal=Art & Antiques Magazine|date=Sep 2008|pages=30–31|author=Shiela Gibson Stoodley}}{{cite web|title=Buckminster Fuller's Synergetic Algorithm and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century|url=http://www.biospherics.org/publications/1984-2003/buckminster-fullers-synergetic-algorithm-and-challenges-of-the-twenty-first-century/|author=John Allen, FLS}} and is the author of several books including "Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design".{{cite book|last=Pearce|first=Peter|title=Structure in nature is a strategy for design|year=1990|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge u.a.|isbn=0262660458|edition=5th print.}}

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,{{cite book|last=Cullen|first=Cheryl Dangel|title=Design secrets. 50 real-life projects uncovered : projects chosen by the Industrial Design Society of America|year=2004|publisher=Rockport Publishers|location=Gloucester, MA|isbn=978-1592530717|author2=Haller, Lynn}} 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.{{cite web|title=Dwell on Design Conference: Dispatch from Day One|url=http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/dwell-on-design-conference-dispatch-from-day-one.html|author=Roberta Cruger}}