Mathmos

Mathmos is a British company that sells lighting products, mainly lava lamps, which were invented by the founder of Crest Worth Trading Ltd Edward Craven Walker. Crest Worth Trading Ltd is the original name of Mathmos, which was amended in 1992. The company's headquarters is located in Poole, Dorset.

History

The Astro lava lamp or as it is sometimes called, was invented around 1963 by Edward Craven Walker. He licensed the product to a number of overseas markets and continued simultaneously producing for the European market under the name Crest Worth continued. The rights to manufacture and market the lamp on the American market were sold at Lava Simplex International in 1966, and the lamp became an icon of the decade; the rights to the American production keeps Haggerty Enterprises, which have their American factory closed and only produce in China.

The original lava lamp designs by Craven -Walker is continuously produced in Europe since the early 1960s - then as now by the company Mathmos in Poole, Dorset, UK. The unique Mathmos - Lavalampenformel, of Craven - Walker, developed in the 1960s and then improved with his help, in the 1990s, is still used.

Sales of Mathmos lava lamps - has gone through a series of ups and downs. After selling millions of lamps worldwide in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, the demand has risen only in the 1990s again.

In 1989, Cressida Granger and David Mulley took over the management of the original company Walker, Crest Worth, Poole, Dorset, and in 1992 changed the name to Mathmos. Mathmos Lava lamps now sold alongside other ambient lights.

The name comes from the produced 1968 film Barbarella. Mathmos (or Matmos ) refers to a bubbling lake of evil beneath the city Sogo.

With the original lava lamp in the 1990s reissue of the sales of Mathmos rose from 10,000 in 1989 to 800,000 lamps lamps 1999.

Mathmos won two Queens Awards for Export and a number of other business awards. Edward Craven -Walker remained as a consultant and CEO at Mathmos until his death in 2000. Mathmos is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013.

Modern Mathmos

Since 1999, under the sole ownership of Cressida Granger, Mathmos has expanded its product range and maintain the classic Mathmos lava lamp - range and extended.

Mathmos develop new products both in house with the Mathmos Design Studio, as well as with a number of external designers such as Ross Lovegrove and El Ultimo Grito.

New products include a series of color-changing LED lights and rechargeable, several of which have won design awards.

Mathmos has also developed new lighting technologies such as Airswitch technology, which allows the user with his hand light on or off and to dim.

With the invention of Fire Flow, the first operated by a tea light Lava Lamp, Mathmos in 2009 has also introduced new, groundbreaking features. Mathmos lava lamps are now recognized as a design classic.

Credentials

  • Mathmos history
  • BBC News ( English) Lava lamp creators mark 50 years of 1960s icon
  • Euro News - For 50 years, the bubbling lava lamp
  • 50 years lava lamp: slime of evil, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 2013
  • (English) Lava Lamp 's 50 Years of Gooey Light, Wired, September 2013
  • (English) Lava lamp creators mark 50 years of 1960s icon, ITV, September 2013
  • (English) The Lava Lamp: 1960s Psychedelic Icon Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary, Artlyst August 2013
  • Company (England)
  • Production Company ( lighting technology )
Types of business entity Barbarella (Film)
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