This is the domain of Sir Terence Conran, who has been informing British taste since he opened Habitat in the '60s. (Although no longer associated with Habitat, the stores are still a bastion of clean, unfussy modernist design—check out the flagship on Tottenham Court Road.) Home enhancers from furniture to stemware—both handmade and mass produced, by famous names and young designers—are displayed in a suitably gorgeous building that is a modernist design landmark in its own right. Both the flagship store and the branch on Marylebone High Street, Marylebone, W1, are bursting with great gifts
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