Designing 007 exhibit displayed in Rotterdam

By: Anders Frejdh

Published:
2013-12-18

The touring exhibition Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style - the most comprehensive ever devoted to Bond featuring costumes, props, models, gadgets, concept artwork, storyboards and other artefacts from the series - moves to Rotterdam after Moscow and opens at the Kunsthal on 12th October 2014 and will be displayed until 8th February 2015.
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Read a report from the press preview of the exhibit in Rotterdam.
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Designing 007 was first displayed in London (from July 6 to September 5, 2012), then in Toronto (October 26, 2012 to January 20, 2013), then in Shanghai (March 28, 2013 to June 30, 2013), and then in Melbourne (from 1st November 2013 to 23rd February 2014).

FSWL was fortunate to be invited to the exclusive launch party in London, read our report.

About the exhibition:
Celebrate 50 years of James Bond in this unique exhibition.

Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style presents the craft behind the icon, focusing on the distinctly British luxuriance of the world's most iconic movie brand. As the world’s longest running and most successful film franchise, this exhibition looks at Bond’s influence on art, music, lifestyle, automotive design, travel, technology and fashion over the course of five decades.

Featuring over 400 objects, Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style is curated by the Barbican Centre in London, with guest-curation by fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Academy Award®–winning costume designer Lindy Hemming, and designed by Ab Rogers who have had complete access to the 23-strong archive of movies to source objects and artwork.

Be captivated by the most charming and sophisticated secret agent through rare costumes, atmospheric sets, iconic gadgets, props, original photographs and concept drawings. See the steel teeth worn by Richard Kiel in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) (1977); storyboards for Diamonds Are Forever (1971); the Anthony Sinclair overcoat worn by Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962); the poker table from Casino Royale (2006); multiple gadgets from Q Branch including the attaché case given to Bond in From Russia with Love (1963); and the 1961 United Artists/Eon Productions contract to produce the James Bond film series.

Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style is organised by Barbican Centre, London in partnership with EON Productions.

Articles in the press about the Designing 007 exhibition while at the Barbican in London:
>An exhibition to mark 50 years of James Bond films (The Guardian, February 29, 2012)
>James Bond - a character to die for (The Telegraph, June 10, 2012)
>The 10 best Bond outfits – in pictures (The Observer, June 24, 2012)
>James Bond: The spy who loved to look cool (The Independent, June 30, 2012)

Official videos:
>Designing Bond's Look
>Designing Bond's World

Editor's note:
Purchase the official exhibition book (a must-have for any serious James Bond collector) from Amazon.com or Amazon UK.

Photo above:
Sean Connery as James Bond posing in a publicity still for Goldfinger. © 1964 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.

Watch out on the official museum website for the latest information on the Designing 007 exhibit:

www.kunsthal.nl/en-22-744-Designing-007-Fifty-Years-of-Bond-Style.html

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