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www.hippielight.com | Astro Mini - Simple Elegance - Styled for International Appeal

Below: Astro 'Mini' - Simple Elegance. Will enhance the attractions of any room - has the clean, handsome ageless good taste. Perfect for table settings and as a decorative piece for all occasions. So graceful! - Ideal for use in pairs. Smart copper finish to metal parts. Colours to choice. Height 16" Base 4"Below you can see the Astro Mini restored with an Astro Baby bottle from Mathmos. Remember that you can restore your Astro Mini with an Astro Baby bottle.

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www.hippielight.com | Crestworth Astro & Astro Mini - Crestworth's Iconic Designs | The World's Two First lava lamp designs ...

Below: Astro & Astro 'Mini' designs - The world's first two lava lamp designs by Edward Craven Walker. Smart copper finish to metal parts. Colours to choice. Height 16" Base 4" Below you can see the Astro Mini restored with a brand new Astro Baby bottle from Mathmos. Remember that you can restore your Astro Mini with an Astro Baby bottle, as we have done below ...

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www.hippielight.com | Crestworth & Murakami Trading Co. Japan.

Below: These wonderful brochure images from Murakami Trading Co, show Crestworth's Astro Mini in Japan. Edward Craven Walker patented the Astro lava lamp all over the world and in distant markets, licensed the patent to other firms. Murakami Trading Co. obtained the rights to Japan, and produced the Astro Phantom Lite and also the Astro Mini Lite. Enjoy the images below, we love the built in dimmers in the base and the pinholes.

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www.hippielight.com | Presents Crestworth's Twiggy lamp | A new concept in functional lighting ...

Crestworth also created an interesting array of other lights such as their Aromalite, which was a dual purpose fragrance lamp, Mistrolite presented a colourful kinetic liquid-less light and Twiggy was a radically new take on functional lighting. Twiggy is an interesting endearing light that can be positioned anyway you wish and some even feature flocked shades, which makes them so fun to the touch. Enjoy the images of Twiggy below ...

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www.hippielight.com | The Galaxy - The very latest thing in decorative lighting | A Great Piece of 1970s Britain.

The Galaxy - The very latest thing in decorative lighting. Crestworth's Sensational New Galaxy. The safe glass fibre optic lamp. Tens of thousands of minutely fine glass fibre optics artistically arranged to create an ever-moving, swaying sea of light, gently changing from one vivid colour to another. Indescribably lovely - a veritable galaxy of enjoyment, with its patent "sealed unit" to contain the sharp, penetrating glass fibres in complete safety - away from inquisitive hands.

Two versions of the Crestworth Galaxy have been seen, one with optics which virtually touch the edge of the patented darkened dome and the other with features shorter optics within. The later is the more popular design of the two.

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www.hippielight.com | The Return of the lava lamp in the 1990s | Mathmos - Continues the story of the lava lamp ...

In the late 1980s, Cressida Granger & David Mulley approached Edward & Christine Craven Walker, to remarket the lava lamp to a new generation. The result was Mathmos. Lamps from the past returned with refreshed colour ways and replacing the copper anodic finish of the past with a more contemporary silver aluminium finish. Over the 1990s, the demand for the lava lamp grew and grew, these images below from different moments of time from the 1990s show the vibrance of Mathmos with products such as: Astro, Astro Baby, Jet, Telstar, Glitter Baby and Lunar ...

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www.hippielight.com | Presents the Mathmos Fibre Space, Faze 2 & Faze 3 Designs ...

Mathmos produced a selection of fibre optic lamps over the 1990s such as the: Jupiter 2, Starburst and lastly the Fibre Space. Mathmos also produced a line of colour changing bulb powered lava lamps under the name Faze. Enjoy the images of the Fibre Space, Faze 2 (Tubular model below) Faze 3 (Pyramid model below) below ...

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www.hippielight.com | Presents Great British Lava Lamp Designs Over the Years ...

For over five decades British Crestworth & Mathmos lava lamp design have illuminated millions of homes worldwide. From the iconic Astro, to the spacey Telstar, to the stunning floor-standing Lunar of the 1990s, to the iconic Astro Mini, or its later adaptation as Astro Baby, to even the candle-powered Fireflow R1 design, these lava lamps are beautiful, iconic and timeless pieces of design.

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www.hippielight.com | Presents Mathmos Fluidium | Designed by Ross Lovegrove ...
Launched in 2000, Fluidium was a radical new take on the lava lamp, designed by Ross Lovegrove, with an opposite form to the Astro lamp (please see first image below). Fluidium was original launched in: Opal, Orange, Yellow and Green. The Green version would also feature the additional Blue/ Green colour way and the Orange version would also feature the additional Violet/ Orange colour way. Opal and Orange were retired leaving just the Yellow and Green models.

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www.hippielight.com | Presenting the Jetstream lava lamp design ...

Mathmos Jetstream was a concept to refresh the Jet lava lamp via a slide-on cover that would simply just slide over the Mathmos Jet (after removing the top cap), and instantly transform the Jet into Jetstream. Jetstream was produced in Silver and White and works well with the bright Jet series of the late 1990s too.

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Welcome to www.hippielight.com Mini Index, a site dedicated to the history, heritage and nostalgia of the "lava lamp" and other beautiful vintage lights such as rain lamps. Created by Anthony Voz. Thank you for visiting www.hippielight.com | www.hippielight.com

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