Ken Adam Designs the Movies: James Bond and Beyond

By Christopher Frayling

Thames & Hudson

Designer: Ken Adam

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Ken Adam is the most distinguished 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.