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

Family pay tribute to Habitat founder as ‘visionary who revolutionised the way we live in Britain’

Sir Terence Conran, the man who dragged Britain’s front rooms and parlours into the modern age almost single-handed, has died at the age of 88, his family has announced.

A designer, retailer and restaurateur who founded Habitat in 1964, Conran was at the centre of an aesthetic revolution that established England, and London in particular, as a European creative powerhouse.

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