Boym Partners
{{Infobox company
| name = Boym Partners, Inc.
| foundation = {{start date and age|1986|paren=yes}}
| image =
| location = New York City, New York, U.S.
| founder = Constantin Boym
| key_people = Constantin Boym
Laurene Leon Boym
| industry = Design
| website = {{url|http://www.boym.com}}
}}
Boym Partners is an American design firm, based in New York City.
History
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.core77.com//posts/25102/Design-Entrepreneurs-Laurene-Leon-Boym|title=Design Entrepreneurs: Laurene Leon Boym|website=Core77}} The firm is a multi-disciplinary design studio.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neyDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|title=To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror|first=Darby|last=English|date=February 26, 2019|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300230383|via=Google Books}} The firm designs products and environments for its clients, in addition to creating self-produced artistic works.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNl_lrLa7foC&pg=PA37|title=Dish: International Design for the Home|first=Julie Müller|last=Stahl|date=October 3, 2005|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=9781568984766|via=Google Books}} The firm has designed tableware for companies including Authentics and Alessi, as well as watches for Swatch,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnCCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|title=The Education of a Design Entrepreneur|first=Steven|last=Heller|date=April 2, 2006|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781621532064|via=Google Books}} lighting for Flos, and showrooms for Vitra.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/27/constantin-boym-new-head-industrial-design-pratt-school-new-york/|title=Constantin Boym named head of industrial design at Pratt|date=May 27, 2015|website=Dezeen}}
Souvenirs
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/30/design-reclaim-redeem-humble-souvenir-tat-will-wiles-opinion/|title=Will Wiles on design reclaiming the souvenir|date=July 30, 2015|website=Dezeen}} 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,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxuFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA350|title=Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things|first1=Bruce M.|last1=Tharp|first2=Stephanie M.|last2=Tharp|date=February 12, 2019|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262038980|via=Google Books}} and the Lorraine Motel.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neyDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|title=To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror|first=Darby|last=English|date=February 26, 2019|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300230383|via=Google Books}} After 9-11, the company added more items to the line, including The Pentagon and the World Trade Center.{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/213549/some-911-souvenirs-that-would-be-better-than-a-cheese-plate/|title=Some 9/11 souvenirs that would be better than a cheese plate|first=Michael|last=Silverberg|website=Quartz}} Following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Boym Partners produced a line of replicas based upon skyscrapers that were not built due to the crash.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703983704576276963283790454|title=The Greatest Buildings Never Built|first=Tom|last=Vanderbilt|date=April 28, 2011|via=www.wsj.com}}
The projects developed by Boym Partners between 1985 and 2002 were the focus of the 2002 Princeton Architecture Press book Curious Boym: Design Works.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZEXtA3JausC&pg=PP215|title=Karlssonwilker Inc.'s Tellmewhy: The First 24 Months of a New York Design Company|first1=Clare|last1=Jacobson|first2=Jan|last2=Wilker|date=September 3, 2003|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=9781568984162|via=Google Books}} In 2009, Boym Partners received the National Design Award in the Product Design category.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1276218/2009-national-design-award-winners-whirlwind-tour|title=2009 National Design Award Winners: A Whirlwind Tour|first=Cliff|last=Kuang|date=April 30, 2009|website=Fast Company}} A monograph about the firm's history and work, Keepsakes: A Design Memoir, was also published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2015.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MfYrrgEACAAJ&dq=Keepsakes:+A+Design+Memoir|title=Keepsakes: A Design Memoir|first=Constantin|last=Boym|date=October 3, 2015|publisher=Pointed Leaf Press|isbn=9781938461255|via=Google Books}}
Museums
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Constantin_Boym_and_Laurene_Leon_Boym/|title=Constantin Boym and Laurene Leon Boym · SFMOMA|website=www.sfmoma.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/2492|title=Constantin Boym, Laurene Leon Boym. Use It Containers. 1995 | MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art}} Boym-designed exhibitions have also been shown in the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Boym Partners also designed the souvenir renderings of the Cooper-Hewitt's mansion home, using emoticons in the design.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/new-cooper-hewitt|title=The New Cooper Hewitt|first=Alexandra|last=Lange|date=December 12, 2014|via=www.newyorker.com}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/22/timeless-objects-by-boym-partners/|title=Timeless Objects by Boym Partners|date=July 22, 2009|website=Dezeen}}