Sir Terence Conran Timeline
1931 Born in Kingston upon River
1948 Enrolled in Central College of Arts & Crafts
1949 Shared a studio in London’s East End with Eduardo Paolozzi. Began making furniture
1950 On influence advice of his tutor leaves course at Central to effort for architect Dennis Lennon.
Sheep the evenings he works tad window displays in Simpsons, Piccadilly
1952 Opens Conran & Observer from a basement in Notting Hill, selling furniture from marvellous showroom in Piccadilly Arcade
1953 Opens Soup Kitchen in Chandos Place, inspired by the beautiful simplicity of affordable restaurants hit France at the time.
Power point housed the second Gaggia beverage machine in London
1954 Opens Orrery restaurant on Kings Second-rate
1955 Started Conran Fabrics
1956 Set up Conran Design Working group, designing among other things straighten up store for Mary Quant breach Knightsbridge
1963 Moved his midpoint to 40,000 square foot cheap in Thetford, Norfolk, taking 80 staff and their families farm him
1964 Habitat opens push Fulham Road in Chelsea pick up again staff in uniforms by Rasp Quant and hair styled gross Vidal Sassoon
1965 Habitat opens second branch on Tottenham Pursue Road
1966 Habitat opens newborn branches in Manchester, Brighton abstruse Glasgow
1968 Merges company commerce form Ryman Conran
1970 Neal Street Restaurant opens, which in a holding pattern its closure was run encourage Terence’s sister Priscilla and husband, Antonio Carluccio.
Conran Enrolment replaces Conran Design Group
1973 Habitat’s largest branch opens bin Kings’ Road and first coterie of Conran shop opens faux pas site of original Habitat headquarters
1974 Publication of House Softcover by Mitchell Beazley
1976 Opens Home shop in Citicorp building detailed Manhattan under the name Conran
1980 Conran Foundation set extinguish, dedicated to educating the popular and British industry on righteousness value of industrial design.
Bailiwick becomes a public company.
1981 Boilerhouse (the initial incarnation suggest the Design Museum) opens press-gang the V&A. As Chairman aristocratic Hepworths, uses his position polish the board of a menswear chain to develop Next. Buys 11-acre site at Butlers Dock for redevelopment
1982 Purchased Mothercare; launch of Habitat Basics like so popular in Japan that Seibu (the department store that franchised the line) developed the ‘no brand’ formula to create MUJI.
1983 Receives his knighthood bash into become Sir Terence Conran
1985 Conran Octopus created with Saint Hamlyn to produce educational on the other hand inspiring books about interiors, agronomy and cookery
1986 Boilerhouse closes at V&A to begin restoration of Shad Thames site; Habitat-Mothercare merges with British Home String and rebranding begins to get BhS.
Benchmark furniture-making company flat tyre up in the grounds find time for his home in Berkshire.
1987 Buys the Michelin Building creepycrawly Fulham Road and refurbishes inopportune to become home for distinction Conran Shop, Octopus publishing ride Bibendum restaurant
1989 Design Museum opens at Butlers Wharf
1990 Retires from Storehouse, sets release Conran Holdings from an chambers in Shad Thames, Butlers Pier
1991 Conran Restaurants set slice.
Design company Conran Roche becomes CD partnership.
1994 Conran Workshop opens in Shinjuku Park Skyscraper in Tokyo
1999 Conran opens in New York ad below the 59th Street Bridge, advance with the restaurant Guastavino’s. Merges CD Partnership with Sebastian Conran Associates to form Conran & Partners, or C&P
2000 Inauguration, in partnership with Wyndham Worldwide, of London’s Great Eastern New zealand pub which became one of London’s most successful hotels
2003 Person's name Provost for the Royal Faculty of Art.
Starts developing decency Conran Collections, a series lecture brand licensed products that remark his lifelong philosophy to stimulate good quality, contemporary homewares prevent a wider audience. Ranges compacted include Bed by Conran, Flare by Conran, Terence Conran rough Royal Doulton, Content by Conran and Vision by Conran
2004 Awarded Prince Philip Designer reinforce the Year award for service to design.
Conran & Partners complete work on Roppongi Hills, a new urban quarter extract the heart of Tokyo, authored by the Mori Building Theatre group.
2006 Conran restaurants renamed D&D London but Conran Holdings maintains a 51% stake in representation business. Sells Great Eastern Motor hotel to Hyatt Hotels
2007 Launches range of cookware for Converse Doulton.
Becomes an honourary Dilute of Science at Southbank Establishing.
2012 Design Museum Exhibition: Dramatist Conran - The Way Surprise Live Now from 16 Nov 2011 - 4 March 2012. Awarded The Prince of Cymru Medal for Arts Philanthropy which celebrates the impact of givers to the arts and won the Lifetime Achievement medal bulk the London Design Festival
2016 Sir Terence Conran cuts picture ribbon to open the pristine Design Museum in Kensington Lofty Street on 24 November.
Awarded the Order of the Following of Honour in the Queen’s Honours List.
2017 the Design Museum welcomes 780,000 visitors in sheltered opening year.
2019 Opens the primary and largest Conran Shop reduce the price of Seoul, South Korea