Several of his best-known products, including the Lytegem lamp by Lightolier and the Copco enamel-coated teakettle with teak handle, are represented in permanent museum collections.
[1] In 1954, Lax went to Finland with his wife Rosemary and 2 year old daughter, Jennifer, on a Fulbright Fellowship, where he learned Scandinavian modern design.
[2] Lax designed a line of cast-iron and porcelain enamel cookware for Copco including a 1962 enamel-coated teakettle with a bent teak handle which became one of his most recognizable pieces.
[2] Other popular Copco pieces designed by Lax include a fondue pot, a casserole/paella pan, and a Dutch oven.
He returned to Italy in 1984 and opened a studio in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, where he worked on a series of architectural forms in marble and cast bronze.