# Simon Pearce > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Simon_Pearce > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Simon_Pearce.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pearce > Source revision: 1356680664 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American glassmaker and potter}} thumb|Factory in Quechee, Vermont '''Simon Pearce''' (born 1946 in [London](/source/London)) is an Irish-American entrepreneur in [glassblowing](/source/glassblowing) and [pottery](/source/pottery), who learned his trade in Italy and [Kilkenny](/source/Kilkenny), [Ireland](/source/Ireland). == Business development == Pearce located his first US factory, in [Quechee, Vermont](/source/Quechee%2C_Vermont), in 1981. This site, which is powered [hydroelectrically](/source/hydroelectricity) by the [Ottauquechee River](/source/Ottauquechee_River) and is part of the [Quechee Historic Mill District](/source/Quechee_Historic_Mill_District), became a showroom, restaurant, and glass-blowing demonstration facility.{{cite news|last=Eiseman|first=Alberta|title=Glassmaking Finds a Home in Vermont|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2D71039F932A1575BC0A96E948260&pagewanted=1|access-date=26 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date= August 21, 1988 |url-access=subscription}} The ''New York Times'' described him as a prominent American designer of glassware{{cite news|last=Hooper Samuels|first=Sam|title=Glassmaking in Vermont|url=http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/travel/escapes/24glassmaking.html|access-date=26 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 24, 2006 |url-access=subscription}} and his works have been given as gifts to foreign dignitaries{{cite news|last=Cullen|first=Kevin|title=Irish PM gives $2M to the Kennedy Library|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/05/irish_pm_gives.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726045342/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/05/irish_pm_gives.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 26, 2008|access-date=26 February 2011|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 2, 2008}} and to presenters at the [Academy Awards](/source/Academy_Awards).{{cite news|last=Pollak|first=Sally|title=Vermont goes to the Oscars|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/burlingtonfreepress/access/1734890791.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+27,+2007&author=Sally+Pollak&pub=The+Burlington+Free+Press&desc=Vermont+goes+to+the+Oscars&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629031549/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/burlingtonfreepress/access/1734890791.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+27,+2007&author=Sally+Pollak&pub=The+Burlington+Free+Press&desc=Vermont+goes+to+the+Oscars&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2011|access-date=26 February 2011|newspaper=Burlington Free Press|date=Feb 27, 2007}} Pearce's company headquarters is in [Windsor, Vermont](/source/Windsor%2C_Vermont); another manufacturing facility is in [Mountain Lake Park, Maryland](/source/Mountain_Lake_Park%2C_Maryland).{{cite web| title = About Us—History| publisher = Simon Pearce Company website| url = http://www.simonpearce.com/category/about+us/history.do| access-date = 2011-12-24}} His company has several retail outlets in the East of the USA == Personal life and family == As of 2016, Pearce maintained a home in [Hartland, Vermont](/source/Hartland%2C_Vermont);{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/t-magazine/travel/simon-pearce-glass-vermont-store-restaurant.html?_r=0|title=A Quaint Vermont Destination for Buying Glass (and Brunch)|last=Neilson|first=Laura|date=2016-06-24|website=New York Times|access-date=August 8, 2016 |url-access=subscription}} previously, he resided in [Norwich, Vermont](/source/Norwich%2C_Vermont). He and his wife, Pia, have four sons. Their youngest son is [Kevin Pearce](/source/Kevin_Pearce_(snowboarder)), a [snowboarder](/source/snowboarder), who was seriously injured in 2009 while training for the Olympics.{{cite news|last=Branch|first=John|title=No Place Like This for Soothing Care |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/sports/04snowboarder.html|access-date=26 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 3, 2010 |url-access=subscription}} Kevin is the subject of the 2013 HBO film ''[The Crash Reel](/source/The_Crash_Reel)''.{{cite web|url= http://thecrashreel.com/store/?index.php|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140131083646/http://thecrashreel.com/store/?index.php|url-status= usurped|archive-date= January 31, 2014|title= The Crash Reel |access-date= July 9, 2014}} Pearce's book, ''Simon Pearce: Design For Living'' was published in the fall of 2016.{{cite news |title=New Book Illuminates Simon Pearces' Influences and Design Philosophy |url=http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/new-book-illuminates-simon-pearces-influences-and-design-philosophy/Content?oid=3678914 |last=Kardashian |first=Kirk |date=17 September 2016 |newspaper=[Seven Days](/source/Seven_Days_(newspaper)) |location=Burlington, Vermont |access-date=6 December 2016}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Simon-Pearce-Design-Glenn-Suokko/dp/0847849325|title=Simon Pearce: Design for Living|last=Suokko|first=Glenn|last2=Sherman|first2=John|last3=Pearce|first3=Simon|last4=Downes|first4=Margaret|date=2016-09-13|publisher=Rizzoli|isbn=9780847849321|language=en}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{official|https://www.simonpearce.com/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearce, Simon}} Category:Glassblowers Category:People from Windsor, Vermont Category:People from Norwich, Vermont Category:1946 births Category:Living people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Simon Pearce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pearce) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pearce?action=history)). 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