Set Designer: Ken Adam

Courtesy of Ken Adam
(A sketch of the War Room from "Dr. Strangelove.")

The story of the War Room's construction, featuring several thousand light bulbs and a furor when Kubrick suddenly decided to change the layout, is one of the design coups recounted in "Ken Adam Designs the Movies," a new book published by Thames & Hudson on the work of the celebrated film production designer. It was Adam who dreamed up the missile launching pad hidden inside a volcano in "You Only Live Twice," the faux Fort Knox in "Goldfinger" and the candlelit 18th-century drawing rooms of Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon."