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Terence

Roger Mavity

Stephen Bayley

'Bayley the author of books on style design and taste tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . . . [Mavity is] good at conveying the experience of being in a room with Conran' Sunday Times

Terence Conran a visionary and a myopic. A design entrepreneur and imaginative restaurateur he was a democratising idealist who was also a selfish hedonist. His influence is everywhere in modern Britain from where we live to what we eat.

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design is the most definitive intimate and revelatory biography of this design legend by two of his closest collaborators Roger Mavity and Stephen Bayley. Frank amusing indiscreet sharp rude respectful and knowing it tells Terence's story as it evolved from before Habitat's humble chicken brick to Bibendum's sophisticated poulet de Bresse via personal successes and corporate calamities culminating in that peculiar temple to the religion he invented: The Design Museum. It celebrates Terence's genius and immeasurable impact on British life - and ensures his rightful status as national treasure. Terence: The Man Who Invented Design is the most candid up-close insight into the man and myth.

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JUN 2, 2022
  • Imprint : Constable
  • Page Extent : 336
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781408715215
  • Price : INR 999
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Roger Mavity

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Stephen Bayley

Stephen Bayley is one of the world's best known commentators on modern culture. In 1989 he was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top artistic honour, by the French Minister of Culture. Since 1990 Stephen Bayley has been a design consultant working on imaginative communications projects for Ford, Jaguar, Fiat, Audi and BMW amongst others, and wrote the creative strategy for Mercedes-Benz' advertisments. He has written for Car magazine for the past 25 years. Stephen was awarded PPA Columnist of the Year for his car column in GQ (which ran for about eight years) and he wrote very popular regular car columns for The Daily Telegraph and Management Today. He is also well-known as an outspoken commentator on art and design and contributes regularly to The Times, The Daily Mail, The Observer, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Spectator, The Los Angeles Times, High Life, New Statesman,The Independent, and The Independent on Sunday as well as many trade and professional publications.

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