Modern Design 
12 October 2010
Modern Design 
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Constantin and Laurene Boym

Souvenirs from Missing Monuments and Buildings of Disaster series

Boym Partners, Inc.
USA, 1995-2000
cast pot metal 5½ h × 4 w × 3 d in (14 × 10 × 8 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $5,313
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Missing Monuments and Buildings of Disaster are series of limited-edition miniature replicas of famous, often infamous, structures from around the world. The buildings replicated in these series have often been destroyed, were never completed or were the location of a tragic event – each a notorious place in popular culture (and occasionally in architectural history) and is as famous for its mode of destruction as for its original function or appearance. Lot includes thirty buildings; nineteen from Missing Monuments and eleven from Buildings of Disaster. Twenty-four examples retain original packaging and seventeen of the Missing Monuments include printed artist’s descriptions of the structure. Signed with decal studio label to underside of each example: [Building Of Disaster Souvenirs for the End of the Century by Boym Design Studio] or [Missing Monuments].

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Constantin Boym b. 1955

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Constantin Boym was born in Moscow, Russia in 1955. He graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute before attending the Domus Academy in Milan where he earned his Master’s Degree in Design in 1985. The following year Boym founded Boym Partners Inc in New York. From 1987 to 2000, Boym was a teacher and program coordinator for Parsons School of Design, New York and in 2010 he became Professor and Director of Graduate Design Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar.

Boym Partners has designed products for Alessi, Swatch and Flos as well as showrooms for Vitra and exhibition displays for museums. Their works have won numerous awards including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2009, eight Annual Design Awards from ID Magazine and two Federal Design Achievement Awards. Boym has been the subject of two retrospectives and two books. Objects designed by Boym Partners can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Auction Results Constantin Boym

Constantin and Laurene Boym

Missing Monuments, collection of twenty-one works

estimate: $5,000–7,000

result: $16,380

Constantin and Laurene Boym

Thirty-six Souvenirs from Missing Monuments and Buildings of Disaster series

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $12,500

Constantin and Laurene Boym

Buildings of Disaster, collection of nine works

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $6,300

Constantin and Laurene Boym

Buildings of Disaster: 24k Gold Anniversary Edition (eight works)

estimate: $2,000–3,000

result: $6,300
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