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Gonzalo Milá

Designer - Barcelona

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Following some initial collaborations, Gonzalo Milá founded the Milá Diseño studio together with Miguel and Micaela Milá After two years at Santa & Cole, he opened his own firm in 2001, where he puts into practice his rigorous essentialism and his human way of designing, with concern for the importance of usefulness. Since then, Gonzalo has collaborated with numerous companies, creating elements that decorate and illuminate, and for which he has received various design awards.

Gonzalo Milá obtained a degree in industrial design from the ELISAVA School.

Son of famous industrial designer Miguel Milá, Gonzalo began his professional career balancing his architecture studies with his work in his father’s interior and industrial design studio. He was awarded the second furniture award of the Community of Castilla-La Mancha together with Luis Victory for their design of the Agarrón coat stand. His meticulous work with small objects and close contact with the philosophy and praxis of the discipline led a young Gonzalo to study industrial design in the ELISAVA School.

At the beginning of the 90s, he founded the Gòtic Sud studio, a group of young architects, photographers and designers with the ambition of meeting the creative demand of day-to-day objects. There he met Juan Carlos Inés with whom he decided to create a firm in 1994. They called it Inés-Milá and together they designed a series of objects that were picked up by large firms for their catalogues. In 1999, he joined the Urban Division of Santa & Cole, now Urbidermis, in the production and product editing departments and after this phase, in 2001, he decided to go back to the free exercising of his profession, subsequently participating in the founding of the Milá Diseño studio together with his father and sister. Said period gave rise to the reconstruction of a period apartment in the Pedrera de Gaudi and the Rama streetlamp (2000), ADI FAD 2001 Delta de Plata Award, awarded, according to the judges, “for the versatility provided by the possibility of installing the streetlamps at different heights and with different orientations”, to cover any scope of lighting with a unified formal solution.

In the years that followed, Gonzalo Milá continued to collaborate with Santa & Cole’s Urban Division, now Urbidermis, creating other emblematic urban furniture and lighting products. His versatility has contributed to the modernisation of the city with more functional, discreet elements, as he says: “The shape of urban furniture has to be very clean and discreet, contributing to the street without filling it.”

He has also been involved in teaching, giving industrial design classes in the ELISAVA and EINA schools and the Barcelona Higher Technical School for Architecture (ETSAB).

Gonzalo Milá is currently working in his studio, designing elements that contribute to day-to-day convenience, applying technology and observing rigorous functional usefulness, in both indoor and outdoor spaces.

Gonzalo is the designer behind the Rama streelamp (2000), a versatile element to place lighting at different heights and with different orientations, blending well into the surroundings, the Candela streetlamp (2009), another flexible lighting element for large urban roads, the Bina wastepaper bin (2004), of great capacity, hard-wearing, weather-resistant and stackable, the Harpo family (2015), an extensive series of solutions for rest, formally humble and very comfortable and the Basic family (2021), for terraces and gardens or private outdoor spaces, collaborating on the latter two with his father, Miguel Milá.

Gonzalo Milá obtained a degree in industrial design from the ELISAVA School.

He has also been involved in teaching, giving industrial design classes in the ELISAVA and EINA schools and the Barcelona Higher Technical School for Architecture (ETSAB).

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Product category

Outdoor Residential, Outdoor tables

Year

2014

The Basic table adheres to the same material and ergonomic qualities as all the elements of the Basic family: comfort, lightness and durability. It is a strong and comfortable outdoor table for private communal areas intended for leisure and working.

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Product category

Outdoor Residential, Outdoor tables

Year

2014

The Harpo table is the final element to create a place to rest and gather in private spaces. It is a table made from superior materials, strong and pleasant to the touch, designed to withstand outdoor conditions and intensive use.

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Product category

Outdoor benches, Outdoor Residential

Year

2014

The Harpo bench stands out as formally humble, multicultural, very comfortable and expressively economical.
Miguel and Gonzalo Milá, father and son, have designed a bench for outdoor use, easy to assemble, economical and comfortable.

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Product category

Outdoor benches, Outdoor Residential

Year

2021

The Basic bench sums up our reflection on the rational economy of materials, complying with requirements of comfort, lightness and durability with its lightweight structure. It is an outdoor bench with well-measured simple details.

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Product category

Litter bins, Urban furniture

Year

2004

Large capacity litter bin designed specifically to be installed on beaches; extremely resistant to use, saltpeter and sand. The Bina litter bin is available in two models, one that can be recessed, designed for installation on beaches, and one that is surface mounted, for installation on hard ground.

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Product category

Urban furniture, Urban Tables

Year

2014

The Harpo table provides an element that is designed for getting together in the open air, with others, to work or rest. With formal humility and an economy of expression, similar to the rest of the elements in the collection, this table contributes to the creation of outdoor spaces that are designed for the citizen and their wellbeing.

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Product category

Urban benches, Urban furniture

Year

2014

Miguel y Gonzalo Milá, father and son, undertook the difficult task of designing an urban bench that would be transported flat and disassembled; formally humble, multi-cultural, very comfortable, with an economy of expression. A global bench that is easy to assemble and install, and that is economic, simple and comfortable.

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Product category

Urban lighting, Urban luminaires

Year

2000

Award ADI FAD SILVER DELTA

2001

Minimalist lighting system with a strong linear character. The Rama luminaire is presented as a “tree of light”. It illuminates specifically or generally, in a very versatile manner, integrating easily into its environment. It is defined by its cylindrical column, and great freedom in terms of its composition, with different heights and orientations.

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Product category

Urban lighting, Urban luminaires

Year

2009

Award ADI FAD SELECTION

2010

Luminaire with oval geometry, designed to illuminate wide urban roads. Candela is a flexible illumination system, with one or two luminaires at the same or different heights, and different lengths of arm.

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