RIP KEN ADAM, DR. STRANGELOVE, JAMES BOND PRODUCTION DESIGNER.

Adam was 95; among the many films in his career, he designed the legendary War Room set and the B-52 interior for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, and most of the giant underground or in-volcano lairs for Blofeld and other Bond super-villains bent on world-domination during the ‘60s and ‘70s. Adam won a pair of Academy Awards; the first for his design on Kubrick’s much underrated 1975 historical epic, Barry Lyndon, and later for the 1995 film, The Madness of King George.

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“I was in the States giving a lecture to the Directors Guild when Steven Spielberg came up to me,” Mr. Adam told the BBC. “He said, ‘Ken, that war room set for “Strangelove” is the best set you ever designed.’ Five minutes later he came back and said, ‘No, it’s the best set that’s ever been designed.’”

—From the New York Times’ obit, headlined, “Ken Adam, Who Dreamed Up the Lairs of Movie Villains, Dies at 95.”