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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.

LONDON — 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 Tuesday. A ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Lava lamps are the most stylish household relic of the 1960s.

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 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 ...

• 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 ...