MI6 have teamed with Faber And Faber to bring
you an exclusive competition to win copies of the Sir Christopher
Frayling's new book "Ken Adam - The Art of Production
Design".
Ken Adam is acknowledged as the world's greatest living
production designer: creator of the look of the James
Bond films, winner of Oscars for Stanley Kubrick's Barry
Lyndon and the film version of Alan Bennett's The Madness
of King George. Now he explains his own scarcely understood
contribution to the art of cinema.
Ken Adam is a German who left Germany in the 1930s -
and his work was heavily influenced by the German Expressionist
cinema of that time. 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
the first 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 expertly conducts
a career-length interview with a man whose designs have
enriched some of the great films of our time.
Read "Diamonds
Are Forever" Extract (Part 1)
Read "Diamonds
Are Forever" Extract (Part 2)
