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Our best-known designer, Conran revolutionised
the look of our homes and our dining-out habits, helping to stimulate the
evolution of the country's tastes. "People can only buy what they're
offered," he said, spreading his populist message that good design is
healthy as well as an inspiration and a delight. "The evolution of our
taste and consumption over the past 40 years is really quite incredible - the
choices we have today would be unrecognisable to a person from the 1950s and
Britain is an infinitely better place for it."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/737751/Magical-memory-tour-of-London.html
It was May 1964, and the cultural shift that was taking music and fashion into a different league was demanding entry into British homes, thanks to Terence Conran, a young designer and restaurateur with extraordinary vision.
It was out with the old, austere furnishings of Conran's parents' generation, and in with something cooler than a Vespa scooter.
Conran tapped into a new interest in interior design on the back of the Festival of Britain, offering contemporary style at affordable prices.
The Beatles were wowing Ed Sullivan, Courrege's mini skirts were shocking the Paris catwalks, and an unknown furniture designer was opening his first store on London's Fulham Road, called simply... Habitat.
It was May 1964, and the cultural shift that was taking music and fashion into a different league was demanding entry into British homes, thanks to Terence Conran, a young designer and restaurateur with extraordinary vision.
It was out with the old, austere furnishings of Conran's parents' generation, and in with something cooler than a Vespa scooter.
Conran tapped into a new interest in interior design on the back of the Festival of Britain, offering contemporary style at affordable prices.
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/lifestyle/cityliving/homestyle//tm_headline=habi-birthday&method=full&objectid=14234607&siteid=50002-name_page.html
'I think the worst thing about the UK at the moment is that housing has not caught up at all with people's taste. You go by an estate and you see perfectly intelligently designed – the word I prefer to "good" – small cars outside the houses; you go inside, and you find intelligently designed audio and visual equipment, cookers, washing machines and sofas, but the rest of the furnishings are pretty dire. And the house itself – be it neo-Georgian, neo-Tudor – is all uncomfortable spaces, badly fitted and with no architectural qualities to it. It's sad because the best architecture in the world is being done by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers – I could name a dozen British architects who are world masters. There is no good reason why residential architecture should be so bad.' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/8750145/The-taste-maker-interview-with-Terence-Conran.html
'I think the worst thing about the UK at the moment is that housing has not caught up at all with people's taste. You go by an estate and you see perfectly intelligently designed – the word I prefer to "good" – small cars outside the houses; you go inside, and you find intelligently designed audio and visual equipment, cookers, washing machines and sofas, but the rest of the furnishings are pretty dire. And the house itself – be it neo-Georgian, neo-Tudor – is all uncomfortable spaces, badly fitted and with no architectural qualities to it. It's sad because the best architecture in the world is being done by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers – I could name a dozen British architects who are world masters. There is no good reason why residential architecture should be so bad.' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/8750145/The-taste-maker-interview-with-Terence-Conran.html
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