[News] RIP Sir Terence Conran

Icy Gull

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I’m sure the oldies on here all bought something from Habitat in their youth. Cool as feck at the time

The very definition of an Entrepreneur

I always wanted to go to his Bibendum Restaurant, is it still going? How cool is the architecture? An ex garage I think?

 

Lyndhurst 14

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When I was working at Gatwick Airport I remember BAA used him as a design consultant for the interiors on the North Terminal

 

Blue3

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Now he is a loss just the type of personality with ability this country is going to need to build our way out of this recession

 

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Late sixties. Trip on bus from Seaford to old Churchill Square where there was Habitat. Limited funds allowed me to buy a trendy calendar and a paper and wire globe lampshade. Race home to fit in my bedroom, wondering when the rest of the fifties, dark-brown ghastly furniture would disappear. It was a revolution.

 

DavidinSouthampton

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Blue3 said:

Now he is a loss just the type of personality with ability this country is going to need to build our way out of this recession

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He was 88!

 

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He had a house built on a steep hill, state of the art at the time with everything electronic and glass-fronted. How he got planning, god only knows!

RIP Terrence, a man that could disrupt the market.

 

Norman Potting

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Icy Gull said:

I’m sure the oldies on here all bought something from Habitat in their youth. Cool as feck at the time

The very definition of an Entrepreneur

I always wanted to go to his Bibendum Restaurant, is it still going? How cool is the architecture? An ex garage I think?



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Four courses al la carte £135 - bargain I agree on the architecture though.

 

Live by the sea

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Spent many a sat nite in the mid 90’s in Conran’s designed restaurant / bar Mezzo wardour st in soho, London .

 

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