The lava lamp was conceived in 1963 by British inventor Edward Craven Walker, an eccentric entrepreneur who founded Mathmos with his wife and business partner Christine Craven Walker in the same year.

In the mid-1980s, a quiet time for lava lamp lovers, Cressida Granger stumbled upon them in a hunt for some new merchandise for her vintage furniture stall in London's Camden Market.

Design & Interiors Sabine Marcelis unveils new burgundy Lava Lamp Sabine Marcelis designs a new burgundy Lava Lamp for Mathmos, her second design for the brand, initially imagined for the designer's ...

Unfortunately, homemade lava lamp recipes can be found all too easily on the internet. London Fire Brigade’s fire safety experts warn strongly against making lava lamps as it poses a serious ...

Like a lava lamp, it’s filled with a suspended liquid, which bubbles up in response to electromagnetic currents. That liquid is ferromagnetic fluid, a magnetic liquid invented by NASA in the 1960s.

Andy Kovach has designed a 60-foot-tall lamp with rotating lights inside to mimic bubbling globs of goo of desktop varieties. The Everett architect who lives in Soap Lake part-time says the lamp ...