Y2K, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of a lava lamp. It’s much less likely that you’ve ever encountered a lamp made out of literal lava.

As far as bold home decor goes, there’s nothing more iconic than the lava lamp. Having a lava lamp in your childhood bedroom meant just one thing: You were earnestly cool. Trends — especially home ...

The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s ...

What is the best lava lamp? It seems that no matter how much culture changes, there’s always a demand for the retro, which is why the playful visuals of a lava lamp never seem to go out of style.

• British inventor Edward Craven Walker created the “Astro” Lamp which he presented at a trade show in Brussels in 1965 which caught the eye of entrepreneur Adolph Wertheimer. He and his partner ...

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, ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Craven Walker turned a neat idea into a global phenomenon, making the world a way more psychedelic place along the way. In September 1963, Walker was inspired by an oil and ...

When Imre Jánosi’s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in ...

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 ...