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British designerSebastian Orby Conran (born 5 April 1956) is a British designer.
Early life
Sebastian Conran was born in London, the son of designer, restaurateur and retailer Terence Conran and Superwoman author Shirley Pearce. He is the elder brother of fashion designer Jasper Conran and half brother of Tom, Sophie Conran and Ned.
Conran was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, in southern England. He studied industrial design engineering at the Central School of Art and Design in London. He later worked with the punk band The Clash, designing clothes, posters, promotional material, record sleeves and stage sets.
Career
In 1978, Conran was working at Wolff Olins, a corporate and brand identity consultancy. Three years later he was head of product design at Mothercare.
Conran established Sebastian Conran Associates, a product and brand development consultancy, in 1986, and in 1992 started a separate design partnership with Tom Dixon, another designer. From 1999, he headed product and branding design at Studio Conran under Conran & Partners, part of the Conran Group led by his father Sir Terence Conran. In 2008, he re-established the design company Sebastian Conran Associates as managing director, based in west London.
Conran has designed for the department store chain John Lewis. As a writer he produced articles, books, and papers on design and has taught at the Royal College of Art.
Sebastian Conran is a trustee of the Design Museum in London. and is a member of the Council of the UK Design Council.
Personal life
Sebastian Conran is married and has two children; he lives with his wife Gertrude in a semi-detached Victorian terraced house in Bayswater, West London, which he likens to New York City because of "its buzzy, creative atmosphere".
See also
References
- Sebastian Conran. Conran. Archived 29 December 2010.
- ^ Lynda Relph-Knight, Sebastian Conran leaves Conran & Partners. Design Week, 23 September 2009.
- ^ Sebastian Conran: Managing Director, Studio Conran Archived 3 March 2010 at the UK Government Web Archive, Design Council, UK.
- Sebastian Conran is reappointed a Trustee of the Design Museum, Press release, Design Museum, London, UK, November 2008
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