Terence Conran > Quotes

“The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.”
― Sir Terence Conran

“Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.”
― Terence Conran, Essential Storage: The Back to Basics Guide to Home Design, Decoration & Furnishing

“My philosophy is best summed up by the phrase 'plain, simple, and useful.' Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion.”
― Sir Terence Conran

“Simple implies both ease of operation and a direct connection with the type of elemental pleasures that we go away on holiday to experience - the sun streaming through the windows, for example, the texture of a rug underfoot, or basic peace and quiet.”
― Terence Conran