Sir Terence Orby ConranCH RDI FCSD (4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020) was a British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.[1] He founded the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989.[2] The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran "moved Britain forward to make it an influence around the world."[3] Edward Barber, from the British design team Barber & Osgerby, described Conran as "the most passionate man in Britain when it comes to design, and his central idea has always been 'Design is there to improve your life.'"[4] The satirist Craig Brown once joked that before Conran "there were no chairs and no France."[4]
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^Rozzo, Mark. "Conran Country | Vanity Fair | May 2019". archive.vanityfair.com.
Sir Terence Orby Conran CH RDI FCSD (4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020) was a British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the Design...
the stage in ballet, opera and theatre. He is the second son of Sir TerenceConran, a designer, and Shirley Pearce, an author; his parents divorced when...
gardening. It was founded in 1984 by Sir TerenceConran and Paul Hamlyn, and publishes about eight titles a year. Conran's own book, The Essential Garden Book...
restaurateur TerenceConran and food writer Caroline Herbert. Her brothers Tom and Edmund are both restaurateurs. The fashion designer Jasper Conran and the...
is my mother?" Conran was married to TerenceConran from 1955 to 1962; they were the parents of two sons: Sebastian and Jasper Conran, both designers...
Shirley and brother of Jasper Sophie Conran (born 1965), British designer, half-sister of Jasper and Sebastian TerenceConran (1931–2020), British designer and...
and retailer TerenceConran and Superwoman author Shirley Conran née Pearce. He is the elder brother of fashion designer Jasper Conran and half brother...
Royal College of Art in London until 1 July 2017, having succeeded Sir TerenceConran in August 2011, and is patron of the Design & Technology Association...
Le Pont de la Tour and Quaglino's as a sous chef for the Conran Group under TerenceConran. While working at Quaglino's, Torode first met Gregg Wallace...
of which ended in a divorce. His third wife was Priscilla Conran (the sister of TerenceConran). He was also childless. Carluccio was the 'castaway' on...
2007, with TerenceConran, published in 7 languages Planting: the planting design book for the twenty-first century, 2009, with TerenceConran, published...
domestic cooks, and chefs and restaurateurs of later generations such as TerenceConran, Simon Hopkinson, Prue Leith, Jamie Oliver, Tom Parker Bowles and Rick...
being introduced to Britain by Sir TerenceConran who sold them in via his London Habitat store commencing in 1964; Conran had encountered them in Sweden...
is an international chain of stores of British origin created by Sir TerenceConran in 1973, which specialises in the sale of furniture and contemporary...
friendship with the Conrans led to the establishment of Bibendum in 1987, where he worked as the chef and joint proprietor with Sir TerenceConran and the late...
employment to traditional artisans. In 1964, Bissell met British designer TerenceConran, whose newly established home furnishing retail company, Habitat, soon...
financier and fund placement advisor. He is the son-in-law of late Sir TerenceConran, the English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. Nicholas W...
Chennai was commissioned in 2002. The Park Bangalore was designed by TerenceConran. The Park New Delhi took up the restoration of the 1724 built astronomical...
plc, traded as Storehouse, was a large UK retail business formed by TerenceConran through the merger of various high street chains. It was listed on the...
Anderson, Richard Corrigan, Skye Gyngell, Rose Prince, Sophie Dahl, Sir TerenceConran, Sam and Sam Clark and Yotam Ottolenghi". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved...
in curating new exhibitions. The museum was founded in 1989 by Sir TerenceConran, with Stephen Bayley as inaugural CEO, after the two men had collaboratively...
However, TerenceConran was disappointed that Habitat itself had not been expanded, and offered to purchase Habitat from Ryman Conran, along with Conran Associates...
As part of the regeneration of the area, designer and restaurateur TerenceConran opened a number of now well-known riverside restaurants, including Le...
Raymond Elston (a mobile), Eduardo Paolozzi, William Scott, Vera Spencer, TerenceConran (a chair), and Denis Williams. Pasmore accepted a job in Newcastle in...
Library. Retrieved 22 August 2012. Conran, Caroline; Conran, Terence & Hopkinson, Simon (1997). The Conran Cookbook. Conran Octopus Ltd. p. 229. ISBN 1840911824...
by international architects and designers, such as Giorgio Armani, TerenceConran and Kanye West. He is known for serene spaces and simple, essential...
shops to complement Hepworth as a chain of menswear stores. Designer TerenceConran was Chairman of Hepworth at that time, and recruited George Davies to...
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