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Conran, Terence

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Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingConran, Terence
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Habitat (Firm)
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LocatedBerkshire (England)
Birth date1931-10-04
Death date2020-09-12
Place of birthKingston upon Thames (London, England)
Place of deathBerkshire (England)
AffiliationConran Design Studio
Design Museum (London, England)
Profession or occupationDesigners Restaurateurs
Found inHis Printed textile design, 1957.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1931)
Conran on color, 2015: page 3 of cover (Sir Terence Conran is one of the world's best-known designers, restaurateurs, and retailers. Born in 1931, he founded the Conran Design Studio in 1956 and later the Habitat chain of home furnishings stores that revolutionized the British main street in the Sixties and Seventies. In the Eighties Terence founded The Design Museum in London, the world's first museum dedicated to design. He is an honorary professor of the University for the Creative Arts, and was knighted for his services to design in 1983)
Wikipedia, 10 June 2015 (Terence Conran; Sir Terence Orby Conran (born 4 October 1931) is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and wrter; born Kingston upon Thames)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 14, 2020 (in obituary dated Sept. 13, 2020: Terence Conran; Mr. Conran died Sept. 12 at Barton Court, his country home in Berkshire, England. He was 88. Terence Orby Conran was born Oct. 4, 1931, in Kingston upon Thames, a London suburb)
Associated languageeng