Mathmos is a British company that sells lighting products, most famously its numerous lava lamp models.
The Astro lamp or lava lamp as it is sometimes known, was invented around 1963 by Edward Craven Walker. The rights to produce and sell the lamp on the American market were sold to Lava Simplex International, in 1966, and the lamp became an icon of its decade; Haggerty Enterprises now has the rights, in America, but has closed the American facto...
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Mathmos is a British company that sells lighting products, most famously its numerous lava lamp models.
The Astro lamp or lava lamp as it is sometimes known, was invented around 1963 by Edward Craven Walker. The rights to produce and sell the lamp on the American market were sold to Lava Simplex International, in 1966, and the lamp became an icon of its decade; Haggerty Enterprises now has the rights, in America, but has closed the American factory and now has them made in China. But they are still made in England, also, at the original site, in Poole, Dorset. Sales collapsed in the 1970s and did not revive until the 1990s. In 1989 Cressida Granger and David Mulley took over the running of Walker's original company, Crestworth, situated in Poole, Dorset, but changed the name to Mathmos in 1992. It sells various lava lamps and other lighting.
The name comes from the 1968 film Barbarella. Mathmos (or matmos) refers to a seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo.
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