Ken Adam was a two-time Oscar-winning decorator. He is the most famous decorator of Anglo-Saxon cinema.
He designed the famous "War Room" from Stanley Kubrick's film Doctor Strangelove, which Steven Spielberg said was the "best set in the history of cinema" A James Bond devotee, he and his family fled Nazism to England in the 1930s. During World War II, he served in the RAF as a fighter pilot. After the war, he first trained as an architect before embarking on...