Peter Jon Pearce

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, 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. He earned his degree in product design from IIT Institute of Design. Pearce w…

Page content (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Jon_Pearce&oldid=1156757004)

Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Publications 2 Patents 3 Exhibitions 4 References 5 External links Toggle the table of contents Peter Jon Pearce Add languages Add links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cyberpuke ( talk | contribs ) at 13:09, 24 May 2023 . The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision . Revision as of 13:09, 24 May 2023 by Cyberpuke ( talk | contribs ) ( diff ) ← Previous revision | Latest revision ( diff ) | Newer revision → ( diff ) Peter Jon Pearce Born ( 1936-10-08 ) October 8, 1936 (age 89) Geneva, New York , United States Occupations American product designer, author, and inventor. Peter Jon Pearce (October 8, 1936) 1 is an American product designer , author, and inventor. He is the designer of the Cachet Chair , Manufactured by Steelcase , 2 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. 3 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. 1 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 Publications Pearce, Peter, and Susan Pearce. Experiments in Form: A Foundation Course in Three-Dimensional Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1980. ISBN 9780442264970 Pearce, Peter, and Susan Pearce. Polyhedra Primer. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978. ISBN 0-442-26496-8 Pearce, Peter. Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978. ISBN 9780262160643 Patents Peter J Pearce Patents 10 Exhibitions Pacific Standard Time Presents series:Modern Architecture in L.A. at the Getty Museum (2013) 11 Everything Loose Will Land at The Schindler House (2013) 12 References ^ a b Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, with John (2010). The story of Eames Furniture . Berlin: Gestalten. pp. 200– 207. ISBN 9783899552300 . {{ cite book }} : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) ^ "Peter Jon Pearce" . ^ Amber Dohrenwend. "Peter Pearce's "Curved Space Diamond Structure" " . ^ Eames, John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, Ray (1989). Eames design : the work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames (3. printing ed.). New York: H.N. Abrams. pp. 227, 241, 249, 253, 265, 275, 283. ISBN 9780810908796 . {{ cite book }} : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) ^ Shiela Gibson Stoodley (September 2008). "Objects of Desire: Molecular Level". Art & Antiques Magazine : 30– 31. ^ John Allen, FLS. "Buckminster Fuller's Synergetic Algorithm and Challenges of the Twenty-First Century" . ^ Pearce, Peter (1990). Structure in nature is a strategy for design (5th print. ed.). Cambridge u.a.: MIT Press. ISBN 0262660458 . ^ Cullen, Cheryl Dangel; Haller, Lynn (2004). Design secrets. 50 real-life projects uncovered : projects chosen by the Industrial Design Society of America . Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers. ISBN 978-1592530717 . ^ Roberta Cruger. "Dwell on Design Conference: Dispatch from Day One" . ^ "Peter J. Pearce Patents" . ^ "Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview" . Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 . Retrieved December 3, 2013 . ^ Katya Tylevich. "Everything Loose Will Land" . External links Peter Jon Pearce, Sustainability, Green design, Green Architecture, Solar design, Prefab Video of Peter Jon Pearce on Morphology and High Performance Design Authority control databases International VIAF WorldCat National United States Portugal Netherlands Other SNAC Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Jon_Pearce&oldid=1156757004 " Categories : 1936 births Living people People from Geneva, New York 20th-century American inventors Solar building designers High-tech architecture Modernist architecture Sustainability advocates Modernist designers American furniture designers American industrial designers People from California Hidden categories: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list Use mdy dates from September 2022 Articles with hCards This page was last edited on 24 May 2023, at 13:09 (UTC) . This version of the page has been revised . Besides normal editing, the reason for revision may have been that this version contains factual inaccuracies, vandalism, outdated information, or material not compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License . Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Legal & safety contacts Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Mobile view Search Search Toggle the table of contents Peter Jon Pearce Add languages Add topic