Ken Adam Designs The Movies: James Bond And Beyond

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very good- to fine condition. Small Oblong Quarto. 229 [3]pp. Original silver cloth with small debossed vignette on cover, black lettering on spine, in original illustrated dustjacket with white and red lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers, halftitle and frontispiece. Title page printed in white lettering on black. Includes impressive gatefold of the war room in Dr. Strangelove.

Extensive publication illustrating the career of production designer Ken Adam. The book presents some of the most iconic sets in the history of film in chronological order, including Around the World in Eighty Days, James Bond movies Dr. No, Goldfinger, The Spy Who Love Me, and Moonraker, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sleuth, and The Last Emperor, among many others. The volume includes production drawings, concept sketches, technical drawings, floor plans and set stills documenting the process from the original idea to the finished construction in color and b/w. Contains filmography at rear. Some light wear along edges of dustjacket, minor to binding. Sir Kenneth Adam OBE RDI (1921-2016), born Klaus Hugo George Fritz Adam, Berlin, was a German-British production designer. He relocated with his Jewish family at the age of thirteen after the Nazis had come to power. Adam÷'][ won two Academy Awards for best art direction.