Lawrence Laske: Design Studio and Collected Works 
24 October 2014
Lawrence Laske: Design Studio and Collected Works 
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Constantin and Laurene Boym

Missing Monuments, collection of four

Boym Partners, Inc.
USA, 1997
cast pot metal 3¾ h × 3¼ w × 1½ d in (10 × 8 × 4 cm)
estimate: $100–200
result: $813
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This lot includes four miniature replicas of structures that were never completed: Étienne-Louis Boullée's Newton's Cenotaph (1784), Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (1919), Adolf Loos' Chicago Tribune Column (1922) and Antonio Sant'Elia's Power Station (1913). Signed to underside of each example: [Boym 1997] with architect's name and structure date.
provenance: Donated by the artists to benefit A Brain Tumor and a Dream
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

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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