The Movieum of London welcomed legendary James Bond production designer Ken Adam and talented writer and Chairman of the Arts Council Sir Christopher Frayling to celebrate launch of new book.

Ken signed copies of his new book James Bond and Beyond along with writer Sir Christpher Frayling.

Sir Kenneth Adam (born 5 February 1921 as Klaus Hugo Adam) is a production designer most famous for his set designs for the early films in the James Bond series.

Adam first entered the film industry as a draughtsman for This Was a Woman (1948). He made his name with his innovative, semi-futuristic sets for the James Bond films such as Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The supertanker set for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) was the largest sound stage in the world at the time it was built. His last Bond film was Moonraker (1979).

Christopher Frayling was awarded a knighthood in 2001 for "Services to Art and Design Education" and chose "PERGE SCELUS MIHI DIEM PERFICIAS" as his motto, which translates as "Proceed, varlet, and let the day be rendered perfect for my benefit". In more modern English, the phrase would say: "Go ahead, punk, make my day".
He has had a wide output as a writer and critic on subjects ranging from vampires to westerns. He has written and presented television series such as The Art of Persuasion on advertising and Strange Landscape on the Middle Ages.
He has conducted a series of radio and television interviews with figures from the world of film, including Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Ken Adam, Francis Ford Coppola and Clint Eastwood. He has also written and presented several television series, including The Face of Tutankhamun and Nightmare: Birth of Horror.
He is especially known for his study of spaghetti westerns and specifically director Sergio Leone. He has written a very popular biography of Leone, Something To Do With Death (2000); helped run the Los Angeles-based Gene Autry Museum's exhibit on Leone in the summer of 2005; and has appeared in numerous documentaries about Leone and his films, particularly the DVD documentaries of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).