Author: Boym, Constantin, Peter Hall, and Steven Skov Holt
Title: Curious Boym: Design Works
Description: New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. Hardcover. Orange boarsd with black and white lettering and diecut revealing color illustration. 219 pp. Mainly color illustrations. This whimsical book presents the whimsical designs of Constantin Boym and his partner Laurene Leon Boym in all their good humor and raw fun. Like Curious George, Boym finds the extraordinary in the ordinary and makes the mundane into something magical. Though best known for his "monuments to disasters" series (tiny metal souvenirs of buildings like Three Mile Island and the Watergate), Boym has been designing a broad range of products, furniture, and installations for the last 20 years. All of it-from sofas made out of parts from Sears catalogs to dishes modeled after frozen food trays-reveals his delight in design. VG .

Keywords: Russian Artists, Constantin Boym ; Boym, Constatin ; ;


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