Fabindia's biggest early customer was Habitat, then owned by iconic British designer Sir Terence Conran.
To many critics and younger, affluent diners, the Conran formula is no longer exciting.
He is still a restaurateur and designs furniture for Content by Conran and Benchmark.
The designer Terence Conran has advised on colours, fabrics and designs for the new interiors.
Design tycoon Sir Terence Conran and singer Phil Collins are among supporters of the group.
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Designer Sir Terence Conran has become an honorary professor at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).
Sir Terence founded the Conran Design Studio in 1956 and later the Habitat chain of home furnishings stores.
One of Mr Heatherwick's best-known pieces is the wooden gazebo he built in 1994 for Sir Terence Conran.
The seven Bluebirds pictures were commissioned by Sir Terence Conran in 1997 for his Bluebird Club in London.
According to the Internet Movie Database, director and writer Kerry Conran has barely worked since the film flopped.
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Eating out is always the first victim of a recession and the Conran restaurants are already feeling the pinch.
Among the designers underrepresented in this show were some of the biggest names: Terence Conran, Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki (of Biba).
In addition management has also announced boutiques for Happy Chic by Jonathan Adler, Designs by Conran, Watchgear by Tourneau, Carters and Giggles.
It was advertised as the largest restaurant in Europe, and even the Conran people now admit that this marketing approach was wrong.
Now, with the increased realism of computer-generated images, directors like Conran seem propelled by a new sense of possibility about what can be accomplished onscreen.
He has become the great survivor of modern British design, reinventing his business interests for every decade since he founded the Conran Design Group in 1956.
Its chairman, the writer Shirley Conran, has declared that women should stop having babies for ten years until the workplace becomes a more friendly place for mothers.
His connection to Habitat has often prompted comparisons to Sir Terence Conran, who founded the homeware retailer and is famed for bringing modern design to the masses.
The obvious analogy is with Sir Terence Conran, a style-setting British restaurateur: but it is as if Mr Conran were also running Covent Garden as a day job.
Oxfam brought in Conran Design Associates to give its 850 shops an upmarket facelift, and says that turnover is up by 20% in shops which have been glitzed up.
"Debenhams historically under punched its weight in that 15-34 age group, " admits Mr Woodhouse, arguing that new ranges from Jasper Conran and Matthew Williamson have begun to redress the balance.
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Top architects and designers like Terence Conran and Vivienne Tam were recruited to create the restaurants and suites, and the general manager comes to the hotel from the luxury Shangri-La chain of hotels.
Part of designer-turned-restaurateur Sir Terence Conran's new Boundary Project, which also includes a French fine-dining restaurant, rooftop bar-grill, and 17 hotel rooms in a converted Victorian warehouse, Albion serves gussied-up British pub fare to artsy neighborhood types.
Also of note: an ambitious onsite bakery (complete with a Twitter feed about what's hot from the oven) and gourmet shop stocking Prestat chocolates, Neal's Yard Dairy cheeses, and fruit and vegetables from the kitchen garden at Conran's country home.
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