Career
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 United States., The Brooklyn Children"s Museum, and the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan, where it has been a popular attraction since 1978. Pearce was offered a job with Charles Eames after Eames saw the bent-plywood lounge chair he made in college. While employed by Eames he contributed to the following projects:
-Made adaptations to the design of the furniture bases for the "Aluminum Group Furniture".
-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 "Louisiana Fonda Chair", made for the Louisiana 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.
He was an assistant to Buckminster Fuller and is the author of several books including "Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design".
The Pearce Ecohouse design, emulates the hexagonal structures of nature and is a green structure built from glass and steel using prefab construction. lieutenant is solar powered and will use Netto-zero energy. Peter J Pearce
Pacific Standard Time Presents series:Modern Architecture in Los Angeles at the Getty Museum (2013)
Everything Loose Will Land at The Schindler House (2013).
