• Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair

    Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair
    A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster – and it all started with a felt-tipVillains hiding out in underground lairs, councils of war meeting at spotlit circular tables, bank vaults full of gold bullion piled high. The popular imagination of what these secret, off-limits places might look like has been shaped, more than anything else, by the dramatic visions of the late productio

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