Conran rants at design rival

HABITAT founder Sir Terence Conran has endured years of sniping after he fell out with Stephen Bayley, with whom he worked at the Design Museum in London.

Now Conran, 86, has finally hit back at the design ‘guru’, 66.

‘I still admire him, but I’m afraid he’s behaved in such a way that I could never work with him again,’ Conran tells me at a private party in Kensington. ‘ He really gets above himself and he’s not good with delegating to people.

‘He’s so bitter. We had crisis after crisis with him and he overspent the budget by £600,000.

‘I won’t be friends with Stephen again. He wrote a very bitter book about me which I had to stop from being published.

‘Stephen has a very large ego.’