Important Design 
11 December 2018
Constantin Boym, Unique Venus and Mars chair and mirror - Image 1 of 2
Constantin Boym, Unique Venus and Mars chair and mirror - Image 2 of 2
Important Design 
Constantin Boym, Unique Venus and Mars chair and mirror - Image 1 of 2
Constantin Boym, Unique Venus and Mars chair and mirror - Image 2 of 2
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Constantin Boym

Unique Venus and Mars chair and mirror

Russia/USA, 2006
ready-made oil painting on linen, maple, mirrored glass 39 h × 21 w × 22 d in (99 × 53 × 56 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
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This is the last remaining and the most famous work from The Ultimate Art Furniture collection, which includes two separate objects. Both the chair and the wall mirror are made of one painting, a copy of Paolo Veronese’s Mars and Venus United by Love from circa 1575, which shows Cupid joining the goddess of love and the god of war by tying their legs together. This work was designed for Moss Gallery in New York as a unique, signed piece.
Signed and dated to each element: [Constantin Boym 06].
exhibited: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, 14 July- 18 October 2009

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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 BOYM, Missing Monument prototypes, collection of twenty | Wright20.com

Constantin Boym

Missing Monument prototypes, collection of twenty

estimate: $20,000–30,000

result: $35,000
CONSTANTIN BOYM, collection of twenty-five original models for the Buildings of Disaster series | Wright20.com

Constantin Boym

collection of twenty-five original models for the Buildings of Disaster series

estimate: $15,000–20,000

result: $20,320
CONSTANTIN AND LAURENE BOYM, Missing Monuments, collection of twenty-one works | Wright20.com

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 | Wright20.com

Constantin and Laurene Boym

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

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $12,500
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