www.lavalamptimeline.com | Vintage Advertisements for the iconic Astro and the Astro Mini lava lamp designs. Below one can see vintage Crestworth adverts for the Astro and the Astro Mini (now known as Astro Baby), the world's first lava lamp designs. These wonderful hand drawn, line-art advertisements show the lava lamp designs in a myriad of different places from the home to the bar. We especially love the artwork that shows the Astro lamp near the television set. The second design by Edward Craven Walker was the Astro Mini which is still in production today but known as Astro Baby. Astro Mini can be refreshed by using Astro Baby bottles. The sleek beautiful timeless design of the Astro Mini, features the timeless lines of beauty with a beautiful copper finish. These ads saw the light of day once again in 2013, and were printed on the packaging of Mathmos' 50th Anniversary Astro, which was limited to 500 pieces. Enjoy the images below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Crestworth Popular Range Below: One can see a page from a vintage tradeshow booklet that shows the Crestworth popular range. From Left to Right: Astro, Astro Nordic De Luxe, GlitterLite Nordic De Luxe, Astro Lantern and Astro Mini. Which one is your favourite? |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Presents the Early British "Astro" lava lamp range: Astro Lantern Below: The Astro Lantern, beautifully finished in a copper polished anodic finish was the most costly table top design to purchase in the vintage years due to its complex build and polished metal parts and assembly. Below, Astro Lantern can be seen with a Mathmos Yellow/Red bottle. However, in the vintage years, Crestworth shipped in Starboard and Port colourways as a nautical inspiration to the product's form. |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Presents the Vintage British Crestworth Rocket "Princess" lava lamp design Crestworth also produced a giant Rocket lava lamp design for promotional and special events such as tradeshows which is often referred by collectors as the Princess lamp. Featuring an all-liquid specialist formulation, this design is simply beautiful to watch and is one of the most beautiful lava lamps ever created in the world. Princess uses a liquid formulation which makes it so much faster to start up and is simply amazing and dazzling to watch. |
www.lavalamptimeline.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" |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Vintage Decoverre French Brochure featuring the Crestworth Classic lava and glitter lamps. Below: One can see a vintage Decoverre French brochure which features a wonderful selection of Crestworth lava and glitter lamps such as the: Astro Mini, Cosmos (a Nordic design) and Astro Lantern. This brochure shows serves a great reference to vintage colour combinations of Crestworth's lava lamps and focuses on the wonderful Cosmos design that features the Nordic bottle placed on a pedestal styled base. Enjoy the images below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Iconic Designs from Crestworth's Range ... Cosmos Below: Often simply described as Nordic, the Cosmos is a beautiful Nordi design that features a pedestal style base that elevates the Nordic bottle design upwards and is seen below with the Autumn Leaves Glitterlite bottle. This particular design is often seen in France and other European countries. |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Crestworth Glitterlite Glitter Lamps ... Below: Glitterlite presents beautiful slow moving glitter dazzling in beautiful colourful liquids. Glitterlite is most popularly seen in the Nordic tubular designs. Enjoy the images below which show Crestworth's Glitterlite in various lamp models … |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Nordic Designs ... Below: Crestworth created many lamp designs based on the Nordic bottle. One of the most beautiful is a Astro Nordic De Luxe design which featured the entire base placed on a cone design for beautiful impact. Telstar by Crestworth was Crestworth's entry level lamp design that featured a flat cap with a flared base design. Crestworth even transposed the Nordic design to create a wall-mounted piece which can be seen below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Crestworth's Living Jewel Below: Living Jewel was Crestworth's second glitter formulation and can be characterised by its larger square silver glitter pieces that shimmer in speed, in liquid. Living Jewel was offered in a different lamp designs but is often seen in the Nordic De Luxe lamp, as seen below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Crestworth Fibre Optic Lamp Designs ... Below: Crestworth also diversified into other forms of decorative lighting, to create a dazzling array of fibre optic lights. From this range we feature: Snowflake, Phantom Lite (seen below with the additional base!!!), Crystalite and Galaxy. Perhaps the most loved is the Galaxy which is spherical in design and features the optics sealed inside a dome, protected away from hands and dust. There is also a very beautiful design that combines glitter petals with fiber optics to create a beautiful design. These are very beautiful designs. Enjoy the images below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.com | Presents Crestworth's Different Ideas | Twiggy, Aromalite and Traction Lamp | New concepts in lighting ... Crestworth also created an interesting array of other lights such as their Aromalite, which was a dual purpose fragrance lamp that provided ambient light and fragrance with its ornate glass shade. Twiggy was a radically new take on functional lighting. Twiggy is an interesting endearing light that featured variable geometry and thus can be positioned anyway you wish and some even feature flocked shades (as seen below), which makes them so fun to the touch. Traction lamp presented the romance of the steam age in a lantern styled enclosure to create a masculine design ... Enjoy the images of Twiggy, Aromalite and Traction lamp below ... |
www.lavalamptimeline.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 them. |
