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"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on images for magnified detail)
Ken Adam in 1976. Photo © Deutchse Kinemathek
Today marks the centennial of legendary production designer Ken Adam, the artist responsible for some of the biggest film sets of the 20th century. The first that comes to mind for me is the supertanker in The Spy Who Loved Me, built on the world’s largest sound stage. Adam designed dozens of secret military facilities and hidden lairs for the seven James Bond films he worked on. But his most famous is probably the “War Room” from Dr. Strangelove, another vast interior - and the reason he had to turn down From Russia with Love.
Adam’s legacy is intimately connected to these atomic fantasies, which continue to influence our collective memory of the Cold War...
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