His family left their mark on the Barcelona skyline (his uncle commissioned Antoni Gaudí to design the Casa Milà, AKA La Pedrera, now a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the city's biggest tourist attractions), but Miguel Milà chose to leave his imprint on a more modern field of design, dropping out of architecture school in the 1950s to pioneer the field of Spanish industrial design.
Post-war Spain of the fifties was a place of scarcity and for Milà this became an opportunity. He began to create the interior designs- furniture and lamps- that his architect brother couldn't find on the market. Working by hand, Milà created his prototypes himself in his home workshop. "I love to do handwork and DIY and this has helped me, always".
Gradually, he made a name for himself and his products have become classics; his TMC and TMM lamps are still on the market after more than half a century, but he hasn't stopped tinkering and making things by hand, when possible. For Milà, craftwork is about making useful objects and he's spent his career perfecting lamps, chairs, benches and faucets (he recently released an eco-faucet designed to make it intuitively easy to conserve hot water).
With his son, industrial designer Gonzalo, Miguel has created such practical designs as modular exterior lighting and a garbage can- plus accompanying ashtray- for Barcelona's streets. Their collaborative process, like their solo endeavors, is one developing an idea by removing the superfluous. The results are minimalist designs, but Milà shies away from the term. "Minimalism as a style seems silly to me because, the less it has the better? And if it falls then what?" A rationalist minimalist perhaps, now at age 81, Milà is officially retired, but hasn't stopped crafting.
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