Boym Partners
| Industry | Design |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Constantin Boym |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Key people | Constantin Boym Laurene Leon Boym |
| Website | www |
Boym Partners is an American design firm, based in New York City.
History[edit]
Boym Partners was founded in 1986 by Constantin Boym in New York City and is run by Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym, who joined the firm in 1995.[1] The firm is a multi-disciplinary design studio.[2] The firm designs products and environments for its clients, in addition to creating self-produced artistic works.[3] The firm has designed tableware for companies including Authentics and Alessi, as well as watches for Swatch,[4] lighting for Flos, and showrooms for Vitra.[5]
Souvenirs[edit]
The company has also designed collectible objects. In 1997 it began producing a line called Souvenirs for the End of the Century, which marked iconic events from the 20th-century.[6] It also produced the Buildings of Disaster project—a series of architectural miniature souvenirs depicting buildings that were the site of a historical disaster. Objects created included the Unabomber's cabin, the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Chernobyl,[7] and the Lorraine Motel.[8] After 9-11, the company added more items to the line, including The Pentagon and the World Trade Center.[9] Following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Boym Partners produced a line of replicas based upon skyscrapers that were not built due to the crash.[10]
The projects developed by Boym Partners between 1985 and 2002 were the focus of the 2002 Princeton Architecture Press book Curious Boym: Design Works.[11] In 2009, Boym Partners received the National Design Award in the Product Design category.[12] A monograph about the firm's history and work, Keepsakes: A Design Memoir, was also published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2015.[13]
Museums[edit]
Projects developed by the company are housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[14][15] Boym-designed exhibitions have also been shown in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[4] Boym Partners also designed the souvenir renderings of the Cooper-Hewitt's mansion home, using emoticons in the design.[16] In 2009, its exhibition Timeless Objects, in which it coated everyday objects with bronze-like material to give them an artistic feel, was shown at the ExperimentaDesign in Lisbon, the Wright Gallery in Chicago, and the Cooper-Hewitt.[17]
References[edit]
- ^ "Design Entrepreneurs: Laurene Leon Boym". Core77.
- ^ English, Darby (February 26, 2019). To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300230383 – via Google Books.
- ^ Stahl, Julie Müller (October 3, 2005). Dish: International Design for the Home. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568984766 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Heller, Steven (April 2, 2006). The Education of a Design Entrepreneur. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781621532064 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Constantin Boym named head of industrial design at Pratt". Dezeen. May 27, 2015.
- ^ "Will Wiles on design reclaiming the souvenir". Dezeen. July 30, 2015.
- ^ Tharp, Bruce M.; Tharp, Stephanie M. (February 12, 2019). Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262038980 – via Google Books.
- ^ English, Darby (February 26, 2019). To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300230383 – via Google Books.
- ^ Silverberg, Michael. "Some 9/11 souvenirs that would be better than a cheese plate". Quartz.
- ^ Vanderbilt, Tom (April 28, 2011). "The Greatest Buildings Never Built" – via www.wsj.com.
- ^ Jacobson, Clare; Wilker, Jan (September 3, 2003). Karlssonwilker Inc.'s Tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9781568984162 – via Google Books.
- ^ Kuang, Cliff (April 30, 2009). "2009 National Design Award Winners: A Whirlwind Tour". Fast Company.
- ^ Boym, Constantin (October 3, 2015). Keepsakes: A Design Memoir. Pointed Leaf Press. ISBN 9781938461255 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Constantin Boym and Laurene Leon Boym · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org.
- ^ "Constantin Boym, Laurene Leon Boym. Use It Containers. 1995 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
- ^ Lange, Alexandra (December 12, 2014). "The New Cooper Hewitt" – via www.newyorker.com.
- ^ "Timeless Objects by Boym Partners". Dezeen. July 22, 2009.