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Terence Conran RIP

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,487
in Not Sports Related
Design visionary and founder of Habitat. 

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,290
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54131297

    RIP

    Shopped a lot in Habitat in my younger days, when we could afford it.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,181
    Influential, simple attractive designs. Not always to my taste, but no doubting his importance. RIP Sir Tel.   
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    RIP
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    brought style and 'affordable' fashionable and useful goods to the high street .. an important man in post war British retailing .. R I P
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,395
    RIP.  60's icon.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,175
    edited September 2020
     "a very simple belief that good design improves the quality of people's lives".

    "It is hard to overstate how uninteresting London was then," he later said. "You could go along a terrace of houses, and every living room you looked in was the exactly the same, with the same extremely dreary furniture."

    So true. 

    Sadly, I can’t buy anything now unless it’s well designed, which can be infuriating but in truth not a bad trait to have. Took me ages trying to find the right key ring the other day!

    Used to love going into the Conran shop mostly beyond my means but occasionally I was able to indulge myself.

    Also created the Design Museum.

    R I P Terence.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP

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