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.

In 1986 he founded Boym Partners Inc. in New York City. His studio's designs include tableware for Alessi and Authentics, watches for Swatch, and exhibition installations for many American museums, including Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and National Building Museum in Washington. Objects designed by Boym Partners are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Constantin Boym is the author of the book New Russian Design, published by Rizzoli in 1992. From 1988 until 2000 he taught at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he was a coordimator of Product Design Department.

Laurene Leon Boym was born in NYC. She earned a BFA from School of Visual Arts in 1984, and a MID from Pratt Institute in 1993.

Prior to joining BOYM Partners Inc. she worked at Smart Design, Inc, and Carbone Smollan Associates. She was the Designer in Residence at Cooper Hewitt in 1993. In 1993, her work was the subject of the ground-breaking exhibition Mechanical Brides at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She joined BOYM in 1994, bringing humor and fun to products and exhibitions.

Laurene Leon Boym was a founder of Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID) in 1992, co-curating Goddess In the Details in 1995 and running the organization between 1995/97. She has been a teacher of product design at Parsons School of Design since 1995, and is the mother of seven-year-old Bobby Boym.