151: Habitats back! Interview with head of design Andrew Tanner

The Great Indoors

Kate Taylor

Arts, Design, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This year is the 60th anniversary of Habitat and today we are thrilled to be chatting to Andrew Tanner, head of design at Habitat who heads up a team of 28 designers who have all been super busy re-issuing and updating iconic archive products as well as creating exciting new ones. We all have our own fond memories of the high street store that delivered exciting fresh designs. At one point it seems everyone had the iconic Tord Boontje garland light. Taking over the legacy laid down by the late Sir Terence Conran, is a big one, but Andrew, who also heads up the design teams at Argos and Sainsburys, is uniquely placed to understand the challenges it has faced in recent years which is how, perhaps we can now say Habitat is back! A huge thank you to Naturalmat for sponsoring this episode of The Great Indoors. Naturalmat are delighted to offer The Great Indoors listeners 10% off their first order by using the code THEGREATINDOORS either online or in one of their showrooms. Valid until 30th November 2024. https://naturalmat.co.uk/ Join in on the chat and become a member of our vibrant private facebook community here https://www.facebook.com/groups/363976081184669/ Please submit your questions for our style surgery my emailing your voice note to [email protected] You can follow Kate and Sophie over on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sophierobinsoninteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/mad_about_the_house/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.4	Hello and welcome to the great indoors the podcast which reveals everything you ever needed to know about interiors and explains how to make it all really work for you in your home.
0:19.4	I'm Safie Robinson.
0:20.7	And I'm Kate Watson Smyth.
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1:42.4	Now today. the
1:43.4	now today we're very excited to welcome a guest to the show.
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