The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Irene Worth he built a remarkable body

he built a remarkable body of work

Certainly our preferred version for the title

The colourful montage artwork on the original-year-of-release poster for Diamonds Are Forever is cracking

The design brings together the giant gold hand

From a collector who worked in advertising (at Saatchi & Saatchi) and was able to use their contacts to get some promotional material straight from the source

The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Irene Worth he built a remarkable body1970s Academy Cinema film poster for Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players). Fab design by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld, born in Cologne, came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio