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.

A symbol of counterculture and psychedelia, the lava lamp was born in the swinging sixties, a year before Beatlemania burst forth. It quickly became a staple of university rooms and basements, casting ...

The story of the lava lamp begins in a Hampshire pub, where a British accountant named Edward Craven Walker spotted an unusual homemade egg timer made out of a cocktail shaker. In September 1963, he ...