A much loved product of the 1960's which is still hugely popular across the world, the Lava Lamp was designed and continues to be made in Poole, Dorset. Edward Craven-Walker first saw the beginnings of the idea that became the Lava-lamp in a pub in the Dorset. It was an egg timer designed by Mr. Dunnet in which a blob of liquid rose when the egg was ready. Mr. Walker then spent years developing a formula for a lamp based on this principal.
Originally called the Astro Lamp, a Mexican distributer coined the title Lava Lamp which is the name that the lamp has come to be known. Having come up with the name, it is often thought that the lamp hails from Mexico. It is in fact British, designed here and made in Dorset. Mathmos, the company behind the lamp is still based in Poole whilst also having a shop and office in Hoxton, London.
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