British designer Thomas Heatherwick is one of the numerous designers to have paid tribute to Habitat and Design Museum founder Terence Conran who passed away last week.
Conran was best known for founding retailer Habitat in the 1960s, which is widely credited with popularising modern continental European design in the UK. He passed away aged 88 at his home in London on 12 September 2020.
Heatherwick, who first met Conran while studying at the Royal College of Art, led the tributes to the "visionary and determined designer".
"I feel so privileged to have had Sir Terence Conran as a mentor and lifelong friend and will miss him greatly," said Heatherwick. 
Conran "revolutionised how we think about our homes" The founder of Heatherwick Studio credited Conran with bringing modern design and food to the UK through his Habitat brand, the founding of London's Design Museum and establishing a series of restaurants.
Above: Terence Conran. Top image: Conran with Heatherwick in 1994 in a pavilion designed by Heatherwick, which was purchased by Conran
"For me, Sir Terence Conran was one of a small handful of amazing people who dragged Great Britain out of the post-second world war gloom and modernised the country by revolutionising how we think about our homes, the products we buy for them and even the food we eat and how we eat it," he said.
"His impact and influence is around us every day and has been so successful that we don't even rea...