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Miguel Milá

Designer - Barcelona

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Miguel Milá is a renowned industrial designer. In 1995, Santa & Cole’s Urban Division, now Urbidermis, asked him to design an urban bench. The initial briefing gave rise to the NeoRomántico bench (1995), followed by a family of benches that have colonised cities the world over thanks to their ergonomics and functionality. In his professional career, he has been awarded six Delta de Oro awards by the ADI FAD (the Industrial Design Association for the Promotion of Art and Design) and the national design award for 1987).

Miguel Milá was born in 1931 in Barcelona. He is the seventh child of a large family of eight (Pedro Milá Camps, his Uncle Pedro, contracted Antoni Gaudí to build the Casa Milá). In 1948, a young Milá entered the Barcelona Higher Technical School for Architecture (ETSAB) and seven years later, he began work in the architecture firm of his brother Alonso.

Even still, Miguel Milá was not convinced by the world of architecture. In 1956 he left his studies and carried out his first interior design commission for his Aunt Nuria Sagnier’s firm. Through this commission, he began to observe the lack of quality design objects for interiors, and started to experiment with various shapes and ergonomic forms. A year later, together with two architect friends, he founded Trabajos Molestos TRAMO: a company dedicated to the production and design of interior elements. This company gave rise to the creation of the iconic TMM (1958) and TMC (1961) lamps, now produced by Santa & Cole.

During the 70s and 80s, Miguel Milá created the Industrial Design Association for the Promotion of Art and Design together with André Ricard, Antoni de Moragas, Oriol Bohigas and Rafael Marquina (ADI FAD), in which he participated in numerous editions. He won various Delta de Oro awards for the design of furniture and interior lighting and at the same time also participated in European design forums and events. He travelled to Venice, London and Paris frequently and became more and more involved in the world of design.

In 1994, Santa & Cole’s Urban Division, now Urbidermis, commissioned him to design an urban bench. This collaboration gave rise to the NeoRomántico bench (1995). Over time, the urban furniture family grew; in 2011, the aluminium NeoRomántico Liviano was the first element of the urban space to receive the “Cradle to Cradle” environmental certification.

He also collaborated with Bet Figueras to create an elegant modular border for landscaped areas, the Robert (2003). Over the years, Miguel also collaborated with his son, Gonzalo Milá, another industrial designer, in the design of the Harpo family (2015), a simple element that can travel flat, and the Inner (2020), a comfortable, very hard-wearing element. His most recent collaboration explores the requirements of outdoor spaces for private use, with the Basic family (2020), a family of elements designed with urban use in mind, but with the softness of the residential world.

Over the years, Miguel has received numerous highly significant awards and recognitions. These include the National Design Award (1987), the Creu de Sant Jordi (1993), the ADI Golden Compass for professional careers in Industrial Design (2008) and the Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2016) granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

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Products

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

Garden edging and parking stoppers, Urban furniture

Year

2003

The result of an overhaul of the traditional edging for garden areas, Robert is defined by three main features: functionality, simplicity and timelessness. Its modular design allows great flexibility of use, adapting to suit the needs of the terrain and allowing it to be installed in continuous closed or open sequences.

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Product category

Urban benches, Urban furniture

Year

2021

The inner urban bench is the evolution of the NeoRomántico and Harpo benches, designed by the same creator. It is a bench that is just as comfortable as the first one, and just as simple as the second, but stronger. The ergonomics of the bench, with its more upright, comfortable position, make it easy to sit on, as it is designed for older people, and those with reduced mobility.

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Product category

Urban benches, Urban furniture

Year

2000

Award ADI FAD SILVER DELTA

2001

The NeoRomántico Liviano urban bench represents a resting element that is cleansed from any excess: more lightweight and comfortable. A restrained bench that has a friendly, ergonomic profile, resolved with just a few elements, designed to be transported flat and assembled easily. It comes in different formats and materials, all of which can be with or without armrests.

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Product category

Urban benches, Urban furniture

Year

1995

The NeoRomántico Clásico urban bench is the overhaul of the traditional Romántico bench, with more lightweight supports made from die cast aluminum instead of iron, with wider, more robust slats that shape a characteristic ergonomic profile that is more comfortable, and raised up to a more convenient height, in order to sit and stand more easily.

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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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