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Sir Terence Conran was born in 1931 and is one of the world’s best-known designers and retailers. He founded the Conran Design Studio in 1956 and in 1964 opened the first of the Habitat chain of home furnishing stores that revolutionised design on the British high street. Later he established The Conran Shop and opened stores in London, Paris, New York, across Japan and most recently in Seoul which is the largest Conran Shop in the world. Throughout his career Terence’s companies have designed, owned and operated shops, restaurants, hotels, bars and cafés around the world as well as working across the fields of architecture, interiors, products and graphics. This diverse range of projects have all been driven by Terence’s fundamental belief that intelligent design improves the quality of people’s lives. In 1989 he founded the Design Museum in London, the world’s first museum dedicated to design which moved to larger premises in the former Commonwealth Building, Kensington, in 2016. In 1983 Terence was knighted for his services to design in 1983 and in 2018 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty The Queen, one of the highest distinctions available in the United Kingdom.