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27 March 2014
Design 
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Constantin and Laurene Boym

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

USA, 1996-2008
cast pot metal, lacquered and cast pot metal 6 h × 3 w × 2½ d in (15 × 8 × 6 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $12,500
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Lot includes thirty-six works such as the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Temple of Artemis from Missing Monuments and OJ Car Chase, Waco Texas and World Trade Center from Buildings of Disaster. Signed with decal studio label to underside of each example: [Buildings of Disaster Souvenirs for the End of the Century by Boym Design Studio] or [Missing Monuments].
literature: Curious Boym: Design Works, Boym, ppg. 74-81, 92-103 discuss series

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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

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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