KEN ADAM AND THE ART OF PRODUCTION DESIGN

"Ken Adam's family fled Hitler's regime in the 1930s. After serving in the RAF during the war, he became involved in production design in 1948, getting his first Art Director credit on Around the World in Eighty Days in 1956. Since then he has designed 75 films, creating the bold and revolutionary designs for seven James Bond movies, as well as the startling war room in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove." "Since 1999 an exhibition of Adam's work has been travelling around the world, but the force and variety of his achievements in cinema have not been properly acknowledged until this volume, in which Christopher Frayling conducts a career-length interview with a man whose designs have enriched some of the great films of our time."--Jacket.