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Mathmos Ltd.

logo
legal form Ltd.
founding 1963
Seat Poole Dorset , UK
management Cressida Granger ( CEO )
Branch lighting
Website www.mathmos.de

Mathmos is a UK company that sells lighting products, primarily lava lamps, which were invented by Crestworth Trading Ltd founder Edward Craven Walker . Crestworth Trading Ltd is Mathmos' original name changed in 1992. The company is based in Poole .

Company history

The astro or lava lamp was invented by Edward Craven Walker around 1963. He licensed the product for a number of overseas markets while continuing to manufacture for the European market under the Crestworth name. The rights to manufacture and market the lamp on the American market were sold to Lava Simplex International in 1966. The rights to the American production are held by Haggerty Enterprises, which have closed their American factory and only manufacture in China.

The original lava lamp based on designs by Craven-Walker has been manufactured in Europe since the early 1960s - today and then by the Mathmos company in Poole. The design of the lava lamp, developed by Craven-Walker in the 1960s and then improved with his help in the 1990s, is still in use.

Mathmos lava lamp sales have gone through a number of ups and downs. After millions of lamps were sold worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s, demand only rose again in the 1990s.

In 1989, Cressida Granger and David Mulley took over the management of Walker and changed the name to Mathmos in 1992. In addition to lava lamps, Mathmos also sells other ambient lights. The name comes from the 1968 film Barbarella . Mathmos (or Matmos) refers to a bubbling lake of evil beneath the city of Sogo. With the relaunch of the original lava lamp in the 1990s, Mathmos sales rose from 10,000 lamps in 1989 to 800,000 lamps in 1999.

Mathmos won two Queens Awards for Export and a number of other business awards. Edward Craven-Walker remained with Mathmos as a consultant and CEO until his death in 2000.

Mathmos, trade fair in Birmingham, England, September 2011

Modern mathmos

Since 1999 under the sole ownership of Cressida Granger, Mathmos has expanded its product range while maintaining and expanding the classic Mathmos lava lamp product range.

Mathmos also develops products with a number of outside designers such as Ross Lovegrove and El Ultimo Grito .

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

Mathmos has also developed new lighting technologies such as Airswitch technology, which enables the user to switch lights on, off and dim with a simple movement of the hand.

The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in autumn 2013.

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