In his 50-year career Alan Peters made innovative exquisitely-crafted furniture ranging from pieces for individual customers to suites of furniture for corporate clients. Among many other honours, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen in 1968, and the society presented him with its Centennial Medal in 1988. He was appointed OBE in 1990, and in 2002 he received the Award of Distinction from the American Furniture Society. He acted as Advisor to the Crafts Study Centre's Acquisitions Committee in the 1980s and from 1989 to 1999 served as one of the Centre's Trustees.