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Bronzed disposables

Posted on November 11th 2009

The Boym Partners’s new collection, Timeless Objects, attempts to make everyday objects as timeless as ancient bronze monuments.


Amid a flurry of new trends, yearly promoted by mass media, there exists an often-voiced desire for timeless everlasting values, for design described as permanent and archetypal. The Boym Partners’s new collection, Timeless Objects, attempts to make everyday objects as timeless as ancient bronze monuments. Each piece entails a “found object” – either a disposable item or an anonymous thing culled from the mundane texture of our everyday life – that is then given a treatment that makes it look and feel like bronze sculpture. Recently the Boyms received a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their Babel Blocks series.

Constantin Boym

Constantin Boym was born in Moscow in 1955, where he graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. He completed his Masters degree in design at Domus Academy in Milan from 1984-1985.

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