Coolboom. Architecture and Interior Design News

Another great guest post on Vidafine is now online!

If you liked the Qubik Bar in Gorizia we published two months ago, check out the Qugik Bar in Monfalcone on Vidafine.

Welcome back to a new year of CoolBoom. Like last year, we want to start with CoolBoom’s favorite posts of 2009. Enjoy!

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Hope you all have your Christmas presents ready and planed a wonderful evening with family and friends.

If you still need some present inspiration you can check our First, Second or Third Xmas Giftlist. It’s too late for order anything online, but you may get some last minute ideas.

I’m planning to spend Christmas with my family and New Year’s eve with some friends, so I won’t be able to post anything until 7 january. Hope you don’t mind…

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010!!!

1. Matryoshkus Bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte take shape of Matryoshkas to make the right sequence.

2. Box Gift A resin and marble gift box that keeps on giving.

3. Hadid. Complete Works 1979 – 2009 An XL book that covers Hadid’s complete works to date.

4. Modulor Measuring tape based on the proportions of the human body developed by Le Corbusier.

5. Full Irish A book filled with modern architectural masterworks in Ireland’s landscape, from small private homes to large community centers.

6. Christmas Cow Boy Porcelain figurine for Xmas.

7. Battery Box Funky tin container with 2 levels to store your used batteries.

8. Kindle Wireless 6” Reading Device The ultimate reading device.

1. Deletus Eraser Palm-size Deletus eraser shaped like the computer key.

2. Jean Nouvel by Jean Nouvel. Complete Works 1970 – 2008 A book designed by Jean Nouvel himself that includes the most original and important work of the 2008 Pritzker Prize winner.

3. Lego Architecture Series Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Feel like an architect building the most famous residential home in the world.

4. From Autos to Architecture: Fordism and Architectural Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century This book offers a critical social history on why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass production and mechanical products so inspired the first generation of modern architects like Le Corbusier, Mies van deer Rohe and Walter Gropius.

5. Apple Magic Mouse The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse.

6. Concrete Rings Hand made rings made from concrete and stainless steel.

1. LaCie Starck 320GB Portable Hard Drive A stunning portable hard drive result of the collaboration between LaCie and Philippe Starck.

2. Bootleg Vase Nadadora’s innovative yet traditional ceramic vase.

3. Design for Obama. Posters for Change: A Grassroots Anthology The book is a selection of the best graphic posters appeared on designforobam.org to create a compelling document of this historic campaign.

4. Living in the New Millennium The best contemporary houses from around the world in one book.

5. Nut Splitter An original walnut opener.

6. Sun Jar The jar that collects and stores sunshine you can use at night.

Here are the results of the survey you took. First I want to thank all of you who took the time to take the survey. We really wanted you to be part of CoolBoom.

As you already know, the general look will maintain the same. We want you to enjoy more of CoolBoom so we are going to stick with the photo layout but make them all bigger.

Also, we are going to start including some products from time to time like at the beginning, but only if they are really worth it. And we will include a poll to see if you agree.

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Its been a week since we posted the survey and we think its time to count in the votes.

On monday we will share with all of you the results on how the new CoolBoom is going to be. This is so exiting!

For this weekend we have something special… A survey!

CoolBoom v.4 is on the way and that means changes! The general look will maintain the same, just some little chances here and there to update the blog. The most important chances are the ones we are asking you.

So please take the survey and become an important part of the new CoolBoom!

UPDATE The final votes are in! You will see the results on September 14.

The super-yacht company YachtPlus launched The Ocean Emerald designed by Foster + Partners.

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