Ken Adam Designs The Movies: Bond & Beyond

By: FSWL team

Published:
2008-05-25

Ken Adam designs the movies: James Bond and Beyond by Ken Adam and Christopher Frayling.

Ken Adam is the most distinguished living production designer in the world. His work spans seven decades and more than seventy-five movies, from his revolutionary designs for the first seven James Bond movies to work on Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and Alan Bennett’s The Madness of King George, for both of which he won an Oscar.

Born in Germany, Adam trained in London as an architect, and his first Art Director credit was on Around the World in Eighty Days in 1956. He has subsequently worked in Hollywood, Italy, and Germany as well as Britain.

Ken Adam’s extensive personal archive of concept sketches, drawings, set stills, and photographs from every stage of his career forms the basis of this book. Using case studies from the 1950s to the present day, it shows the whole cycle of his production designs, from initial concept to what appears on the screen itself. The result encapsulates the evolving role of the Art Director and Production Designer from the golden age of the big studios to the digital fantasies of the early twenty-first century.

The commentary is by Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, London, Chairman of the Arts Council, England, Chairman of the UK’s Design Council, and a Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Book details:
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Language: English
ISBN: 0500514143
Retail price: 32 GBP

Editor's note:
Editor's note:
For more about Sir Ken Adam on From Sweden with Love, click here.

For more biographies presented on From Sweden with Love, click here.

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