In 2024, Mathmos’ Astro Lava Lamp celebrates its 60th anniversary with a series of creative collaborations that include a lava lamp by Sabine Marcelis that honours the design's original magic with a ...

You guys remember the Lava Lamp right? It was the rage of college dorm rooms and teenage make-out sessions everywhere. Well, Mathmos were the guys that invented it way back when in 1963, and now, they ...

The home décor staple of the 1960s and early ’70s counterculture is making a comeback. By Jessica Bumpus Samuel Elmore first saw a lava lamp when he was about 12 or 13 years old and walking through a ...

If we got a mobile phone charm for every phone charm we ever saw, then we'd have a lot of phone charms. Most don't pass the Crave test, which is why you never hear about them. This one from Mathmos, ...

Lava Lamps are pretty straightforward beasts: take a hot bulb, slap a glass jar full of liquid and wax on top, and watch the undulating shapes simmer around while you try to remember exactly what was ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Call them ’60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British ...

Inspired by Marcelis’ vision of floor-to-ceiling light sculptures, the ‘Column’ lamp is pure psychedelic whimsy, reimagined at an architectural scale. ‘I always wanted to design a giant lava lamp,’ ...

Lava lamps are cult. They were invented in the 1960s by the British manufacturer Mathmos, which still sells them in various versions today. Mathmos prides itself on its particularly high quality and ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Lava lamps are the most stylish household relic of the 1960s.

Call them ’60s relics or hippy home accessories, lava lamps have been casting their dim but groovy light on interiors for half a century, having hit British shelves 50 years ago on Tuesday. A British ...