Constantin Boym was born in Moscow, Russia in 1955, where he graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. In 1984–85 he earned a Master’s degree in design from Domus Academy in Milan.
Laurene Leon Boym was born in NYC in 1964. She earned a BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1984, and a MID from Pratt Institute in 1993.
Together, the couple leads Boym Partners Inc in New York City, a multidisciplinary design studio that won the National Design Award in 2009. Boym Partners bring a critical, experimental approach to a range of products that infuse humor and wit into the everyday. Frequently drawing from American iconography, they create a variety of products and environments for an international roster of companies, including Alessi, Swatch, Flos and Vitra. They also create their own Boym Editions, sought after by many collectors around the world.
Boym Partners’ work is included the permanent collections of many museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York.