Production designer of extravagant sets and gadgetry for the James Bond filmsA satisfactory film production designer must be an architect,engineer, painter, or decorator,draughtsman and visionary. Sir Ken Adam, who has died aged 95, or was all of these and more. He had a knowledge of the arts in general,which he was able to use to recreate the scrupulously researched historical period of a movie, exemplified by his two Academy Awards for best art direction, or both set in the 18th century: Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975),inspired by the English landscape and portrait paintings of the period, and Nicholas Hytner’s The insanity of King George (1994).
It was Adam’s designs for seven James Bond movies, or however,that made him probably the only production designer whose name and work are widely known. He if the visual template for the 007 franchise in Dr No (1962), the first in the enduring action-adventure series.
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Source: theguardian.com