Sir Terence Orby Conran was an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.
18 Facts About Terence Conran
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Terence Conran was educated at Highfield School in Liphook, Bryanston School in Dorset and the Central School of Art and Design, where he studied textiles and other materials.
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Terence Conran started his own design practice in 1956 with the Summa furniture range and designing a shop for Mary Quant.
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Terence Conran was involved in architecture and interior design, including establishing the architecture and planning consultancy Conran Roche with Fred Roche in 1980.
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Terence Conran had a major role in the regeneration in the early 1990s of the Shad Thames area of London next to Tower Bridge that includes the Design Museum.
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Terence Conran's business, Conran and Partners, is a design company comprising product, brand and interior designers and architects, working on projects all over the world.
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In 2019, the Terence Conran Shop opened in Seoul, South Korea.
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Besides Bibendum, Terence Conran created many other restaurants in London and elsewhere.
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Terence Conran wrote over 50 books which broadly reflect his design philosophy, The majority of these books were published by Conran Octopus, a division of Octopus Publishing Group, a cross-platform illustrated-book publisher founded by Conran and Paul Hamlyn.
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Terence Conran was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1983 New Year Honours and Companion of Honour in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to design.
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Terence Conran was a winner of the Chartered Society of Designers Minerva Medal, the society's highest award.
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Between 2003 and 2011, Terence Conran was provost of the Royal College of Art.
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In 2010, Terence Conran was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.
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Terence Conran won the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Catey Awards in 2017.
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In 2019, Terence Conran was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Furniture Makers' Company, the City of London livery company and charity for the furnishing industry.
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Terence Conran married architect Brenda Davison in 1952 at the age of 19; the marriage lasted six months.
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Terence Conran married his third wife, cookery writer Caroline Herbert, the following year.
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Sir Terence Conran died on 12 September 2020, at the age of 88.