The title says it all and it IMMEDIATELY hooked us when we first saw it as we cruised the internets searching for coolness to share with those that may have missed it.  Tra Publishing believes that each book is a unique experience, meticulously designed and fabricated in response to and with utmost respect for the contents.  Well the contents of THIS book are sensational.  If you are like us, you LOVE to HATE the bad guys.  Whether it’s Syndrome in “The Incredibles,” Niander Wallace, Jr. from “Blade Runner: 2049,” Nathan Bateman in “Ex-Machina” or the baddest of the bad, from a galaxy far far away, Darth Vader, fans gravitate towards the bad guy.

Here is what Tra Publishing had to say about the book we can’t wait to read, “Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains.”

From Atlantis in The Spy Who Loved Me to Nathan Bateman’s ultra-modern abode in Ex Machina, big-screen villains often live in architectural splendor. From a design standpoint, the villain’s lair, as popularized in many of our favorite movies, is a stunning, sophisticated, envy-inducing expression of the warped drives and desires of its occupant. 

Lair, the first title in Tra Publishing’s Design + Film series, celebrates and considers several iconic villain’s lairs from recent film history. The book, strikingly designed in silver ink on black paper, explores the architectural design of these structures through architectural illustrations and renderings, photographs, essays, film analyses, interviews, and more.

From futuristic fantasies to deathtrap-laden hives, from dwellings in space to those under the sea, pop culture and architecture join forces in these outlandish, primarily modern homes and in Lair, which features buildings from fifteen films, including: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Star Wars, The Incredibles, Blade Runner 2049, You Only Live Twice, The Ghost Writer, Body Double and North by Northwest.

Edited by acclaimed architect Chad Oppenheim with Andrea Gollin, Lair includes interviews with production designers and other industry professionals such as Ralph Eggleston, Richard Donner, Roger Christian, David Scheunemann, Gregg Henry, and Mark Digby.

Contributors include director Michael Mann, cultural critic Christopher Frayling, museum director Joseph Rosa, and architect Amy Murphy. Architectural illustrations and renderings by Carlos Fueyo provide multiple in-depth views of these spaces.

This book looks and sounds so great we may have to have Amazon do a same day delivery.  CLICK HERE to order YOUR copy of the book that proves bad guys have the BEST homes and lairs.