This literal lava lamp looks nothing like your lamp from the '70s

"That's the basic description of a series of three lamps made by the luxury Italian lighting company Foscarini. The company's new Alicudi, Filicudi, and Panarea lamps, designed by Italian father-and-son design team Alberto and Francesco Meda, are formed from actual lava rock sourced from Mount Vesuvius. To own a piece of Italy's iconic volcano, you'll have to fork over $866 for any one of the lamp models."

"The real lava lamp may be pricier than its '70s predecessor, but that's thanks to the labor-intensive process that goes into recycling the actual lava into a workable material-and converting it into an object you'd actually want to hang in your dining room. How an Italian design company made lamps from literal lava When Alberto and Francesco began brainstorming for the collaboration with Foscarini, they wanted to experiment with a material that would be entirely new in the lighting world."

""Unlike marble, lava is not quarried: it is gathered directly from the mountain," Francesco said in a press release. "After an eruption the magma settles, becoming part of the terrain and forming blocks of lavic stone that can be crafted. The cutting process generates a large quantity of surplus chips, which we wanted to salvage. The Alicudi, Filicudi, and Panarea lamps use recycled lava chips, provided by Ranieri and left over from its other projects, as the main material composing their shades."

Three new luxury lamps—Alicudi, Filicudi, and Panarea—are constructed from recycled lava rock sourced from Mount Vesuvius and retail for $866 each. Alberto and Francesco Meda designed the lamps using leftover lava chips reclaimed from Ranieri's production of bespoke lava-stone pieces. The recycling process crushes the scrap into powder with varying grain sizes, mixes the powder with a binder to form a paste, pours the paste into molds, and finishes each piece by hand. Lava is gathered from the mountain after eruptions rather than quarried, and the project emphasizes salvaging surplus material through a labor-intensive process.

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