276°
Posted 20 hours ago

CONTENT BY TERENCE CONRAN Bedding Rupert Stripe 200 Thread Count Cotton Double Duvet Cover Set with Pillowcase Green

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

At Just Linen, we have a large selection of bedding and linen from some of the biggest names in the industry. We love the heritage and the design experience behind Terence Conran bedding, which is why we have a selection of items for our customers to choose from. Habitat was the springboard for Conran’s expansion into the retail mainstream. As the founder of the Storehouse Group he acquired the Heals furniture business, set up Next, the high street fashion chain, and ran British Home Stores and Mothercare. This business ambition came to an end after several years of management and shareholder acrimony but the dream of introducing intelligently-designed products to the mass market had a brief, palpable effect on the high street. Terence continues to be involved in retail with The Conran Shop, with eight stores located in London, Paris, New York and across Japan. At the same time the Conran design consultancy was in the vanguard of the professionalisation of design in Britain, specialising in interiors, product design and graphics, and even establishing an architectural practice with Fred Lloyd Roche. Conran then embarked on an entirely new career in the restaurant business, with an impact as profound on what Britain’s ever-expanding middle classes ate, as Habitat had on what they sat on and the utensils they used. His first restaurant, with Ivan Storey, The Soup Kitchen, opened in London in 1953 and his most recent, Skylon, opened at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2007; and the restaurant empire extends to Guastavino’s in New York, Custom House in Copenhagen and Botanic in Tokyo. Alcazar, which opened in Paris in 1998, represents a resolution of Conran’s admiration and passion for French food and style. In 2006, D&D London acquired a 49% stake in the restaurant business, but Conran continues to be involved with it. In late 2008 he opened the Boundary in Shoreditch – a restaurant, rooftop bar and grill, café, bakery and foodstore with 17 individually designed bedrooms. Sir Terence Conran is one of the country's best known designers or homeware and interior design. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, and owned several chains of celebrated interior design shops. Throws are multi functional items. They are another item that can be used to enhance the design of the bed but, first and foremost, they are used to provide additional warmth and heat. They effectively act as another layer, and they are easily added or removed during the night, so that you can regulate the temperature in the bed according to how warm or cold you are and even what time of year it is. Terence Conran throws are 100% polyester so are incredibly hard wearing. They can be machine washed on a warm wash and they are available in a very generous size to give you the ultimate bedroom finish.

Sir Terence Conran has had more impact than any other designer of his generation on everyday life in contemporary Britain though a series of parallel careers. Conran describes the private boarding school he attended as an ‘inspired’ choice by his mother, because it particularly encouraged creativity in its pupils and balanced academic study with practical, physical activities like digging the vegetable garden and rudimentary plumbing. Later, at the Central School of Art and Design in London, Conran absorbed the Bauhaus and Arts & Crafts influenced beliefs that ‘a good design should be available to the whole community, not just to a few.’ After Central he set up as an independent designer at the age of 21. Through his friendship with the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi he was on the fringes of the Independent Group, the artistic avant garde of the 1950s that brought Pop Art to Britain and worked on the Festival of Britain. But he was driven to establish his own shop, as he once said, to prove to people that his designs could find a market even if nobody else wanted to sell them. He was the founder of Habitat, the furniture company that he grew from a single, very high profile outlet in London, to a national and then international chain. Habitat took Britain out of the gloom of post war austerity into a vision of what the domestic world could be like. It was a very particular version of modernism, based on simple forms, natural materials, and a fresh colour palette. It was a humanised, British version of Bauhaus. Indeed at one time the Conran Design Group used the platonic sphere, cube and cone of the Bauhaus as its logo. But after the post war equation in the British mind of modernism with war time utility designs and deprivation, it was an important commercial success, and showed that design could be glamorous. Sir Terence Conran is well known for his beautiful interior designs and homeware designs, and his bedding sets are no exception. The leaf grey design, for example, uses a natural leaf and plant print but updates it with a modern geometric style. The cover is reversible so that you can choose whether you want the subtle grey front or the off white reverse for your bedding set.As when choosing any bedding sets or items, you do need to ensure that you choose good quality. Consider the thread count of cotton bedding items, the material used in cushion and throw covers, and always ensure that you buy bedding sets to match the size of the bedding and bed in your room. Cushions offer a great way to accentuate and further improve the design of your bed and its bedding. You don't necessarily use the cushions when you're sleeping, but if you like to sit up and read, then cushions can be used to offer some lumbar support, and they are an ideal way to dress a bed. Choosing cushions that match the bedding set on your bed means that you can further enhance the look of the room. Terence Conran bedding sets include machine washable, feather filled and a finely ruched matt velvet cover. The polyester reverse is hard wearing and durable, and there is a selection of colours available so that you can choose the cushion covers that best suit your bedding set design. Duvet covers are vital to the design of a room. The bed is the main focal point in any bedroom, and it is the area that people look when they are formulating an opinion of the design of a room. Whether you want to create an inviting environment for yourself, or you want the perfect guest room for friends and family, choosing a bedding set and duvet cover with an attractive design is important, but looks are only part of the equation. Conran showed how design could become an organised businesslike activity, and one that could earn its place at the centre of national debate. He broke the mold of the ‘paternalistic, elitist’ character of British design before and after the War, and was reproached by the Society of Industrial Artists in the mid-1950s for promotional activities which were regarded as unacceptably competitive. The success of his enterprises have hugely influenced the British government’s ability to recognise the economic value of design.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment