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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 ...

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 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 ...

Sabine Marcelis and Mathmos unveiled a new burgundy Lava Lamp, their second collaboration, previewed at the designer's VitraHaus Loft installation and featuring her distinctive take on colour and ...

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, ...

The Rolling Stones and lava lamp pioneers Mathmos have collaborated on a red vinyl Astro lava lamp. The collaboration celebrates a shared heritage dating back to 1963: the year the Stones released ...

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