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Terence Conran

November 2021

  • Sir Terence Conran at home, Britain - September, 1988 Pictured in the lounge at Barton Court, Conran’s home in a 145-acre estate in Kintbury, in the United Kingdom<br>Sir Terence Conran at home, Britain - September, 1988 Pictured in the lounge at Barton Court, Conran’s home in a 145-acre estate in Kintbury, in the United Kingdom. Portrait by David Hartley / Rex

    Terence: The Man Who Invented Design by Stephen Bayley and Roger Mavity review – a life and times of the king of style

    The contradictions in Terence Conran’s character shine through in this profile by a former protege whose book is a mixture of score-settling and affection

December 2020

  • Sir Terence Conran at his home, Barton Court, in Kintbury, Berkshire, 1988.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2020
    Terence Conran remembered by Norman Foster

    The architect celebrates the enduring influence of his friend across design, food, fashion and many other aspects of modern British life

October 2020

  • 6th December 1981 OM COVER_IMG-6790

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: at home with Terence Conran, 1981

    The designer shows off his Afghan rugs and creamy white curtains. By Chris Hall

September 2020

  • William Morris

    The Guardian view on good style: it makes life better

  • Suzanne Moore

    Grey houses, Spam fritters: Terence Conran saved Britain from so much

    Suzanne Moore
  • Terence Conran in about 1956, when he started his design practice.

    Woks, duvets, chicken bricks: how Terence Conran restyled Britain

  • Terence Conran

    Sir Terence Conran obituary

  • Terence Conran, designer, retailer and restaurateur, dies aged 88

  • Terence Conran on his passion for intelligently designed products for everyone – video

  • Terence Conran: a life in pictures

January 2019

  • Norman Foster in his office.

    More than 170 business leaders join call for second Brexit referendum

    Terence Conran and Norman Foster among those signing letter to the Times

June 2018

  • Sir Terence Conran

    Sir Terence Conran’s restaurant group calls in administrators

    Final three Prescott & Conran outlets hit by weak consumer demand and rising costs

November 2017

  • Terence Conran in blue shirt

    This much I know
    Terence Conran: ‘I’m not fashionable. I believe in plain, simple, useful things’

  • Antonio Carluccio in his Neal Street Restaurant in London in 1993.

    Antonio Carluccio obituary

June 2017

  • Actor Billy Connolly

    Billy Connolly leads the way in Queen’s birthday honours list

    Actor knighted in recognition of services to entertainment and charity, and is joined by Paul McCartney, JK Rowling and Delia Smith on the list

February 2017

  • Claude Bosi

    Michelin men: Claude Bosi, Terence Conran and the return of Bibendum

    Bibendum has been a London landmark for 30 years. Now, with its relaunch, it is up to chef Claude Bosi to bring the stars home

August 2016

  • Sir Terence Conran

    The Q&A
    Terence Conran: ‘My biggest disappointment? Merging my company with BHS’

    The designer on embarrassing moments, being blind in one eye and sending his ashes up in rockets

September 2015

  • 50 years of British Roadsigns at the Design Museum

    Signs of the times: 21st-century road signs redesigned by famous artists – in pictures

    Stop! To mark the 50th anniversary of the British road signage system, Terence Conran, Peter Blake, Rob Ryan, Kate Gibb and others have reimagined the most pedestrian of road signs. Here are their whimsical, political and rock’n’roll versions

May 2015

  • Homes: Sheridan Coakley

    Homes: easy as SCP – 30 years at the cutting edge of British design

    As British design firm SCP turns 30, its founder Sheridan Coakley talks modernism, shopping for furniture and discovering Philippe Starck

November 2014

  • Rodney Fitch

    Rodney Fitch obituary

    Retail designer who combined creativity with robust commercialism
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