Grey houses, Spam fritters: Terence Conran saved Britain from so much | Suzanne Moore

Habitat’s founder brought sensuality and sophistication to a country starved of fun and colour. He taught me and countless others how to live
When my mum came to visit me in my council flat in the mid-80s, she looked around disapprovingly. “It may be all right when it’s furnished,” she acknowledged. “It is furnished,” I told her.This was the difference between her generation and mine. I did not have the mandatory three-piece suite, dinner table and chairs all