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 ...

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,’ ...

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 ...

Regular lava lamps haven’t been unironically cool in decades, but technologists keep finding new and exciting ways to update them for the 21st century. Recently, we covered the way that Silicon Valley ...

There are many more styles on the market, including some with unique features. Here’s a look at some of the best lava lamps ...

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The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s Depending on your age, you may remember them from Doctor Who and The Prisoner in the 1960s, ...

In this Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, Anthony Voss, lava lamp expert and collector, poses for the photographer in a shop in London with some of the lava lamps in his collection. The lava lamp, an iconic ...