The home décor staple of the 1960s and early ’70s counterculture is making a comeback.
Samuel Elmore first saw a lava lamp when he was about 12 or 13 years old and walking through a shopping mall in Peterborough, England. “They had a window display and there was lots of different lighting and things,” the 38-year-old collector recalled recently. And one “turned out to be a lava lamp — that I found utterly fascinating.”
A classic lava lamp — a home décor staple of the counterculture in the 1960s and early ’70s — is usually an illuminated vessel containing wax boluses that hypnotically float in a viscous liquid.
Mr. Elmore said “the
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