His connection to Habitat has often prompted comparisons to Sir Terence Conran, who founded the homeware retailer and is famed for bringing modern design to the masses.

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The obvious analogy is with Sir Terence Conran, a style-setting British restaurateur: but it is as if Mr Conran were also running Covent Garden as a day job.

ECONOMIST: Food for fun

Part of designer-turned-restaurateur Sir Terence Conran's new Boundary Project, which also includes a French fine-dining restaurant, rooftop bar-grill, and 17 hotel rooms in a converted Victorian warehouse, Albion serves gussied-up British pub fare to artsy neighborhood types.

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