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Zusatztext The contradictions in Terence Conran's character shine through in this profile by a former protege whose book is a mixture of scoresettling and affection Informationen zum Autor In the 1970s, Terence Conran plucked Stephen Bayley from the obscurity of provincial academe to do his good works. One result was The Boilerhouse Project, promoting design in London's V&A, which became the most successful gallery of the eighties. Another result was the influential Design Museum. Stephen has since become one of the world's best-known commentators on design and popular culture. Roger Mavity had been hired by Terence many times and fired nearly as often. First at the French Gold Abbott ad agency where Roger won the Habitat advertising account; then at two more agencies including Mavity Gilmore, his own business. In 2006 he became Chief Executive of Conran Holdings, Terence's business empire, where he stayed for seven years. Roger also ran his own ad agency for ten years and was Chief Executive of Granada Group's technology and leisure divisions for another ten years. He quit business to work as a writer and photographer. Klappentext 'Bayley . . . 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 Francophile who could not speak French. A democratising idealist and a selfish hedonist. His was a life of contradictions, simultaneously a national figure and an enigma. A design entrepreneur and imaginative restaurateur, his influence is everywhere in modern Britain from where we live to what we eat. He made it his life's work to escape suburban mediocrity, and to help the rest of us escape too. An astonishing life, if not a contented one, Terence leapt from one idea to the next: he was a furniture manufacturer, a hotelier, an author, educator and patron. He married and separated from four women, fathered five children, made several enemies, antagonised countless shareholders, provided thousands, possibly millions, of column inches, and smoked over £1 million worth of cigars. Terence: The Man Who Invented Design is the definitive biography of this design legend, by two of his closest collaborators, Roger Mavity and Stephen Bayley. Frank, witty and revelatory, 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. Providing an authentic and intimate insight into his life and legacy, Terence celebrates his genius and immeasurable impact on British life - and ensures his rightful status as national treasure. Vorwort Terence: The Man Who Invented Design offers a candid, authentic insight, much of which has never before been published, into the Terence Conran life and legacy from two collaborators who knew him best. Zusammenfassung Terence: The Man Who Invented Design offers a candid, authentic insight, much of which has never before been published, into the Terence Conran life and legacy from two collaborators who knew him best....
