Miguel Milá, an industrial designer with a fundamental role in the contemporary history of Catalan and Spanish design, and a member of a generation of design pioneers that began in the 1950s, died on 13 August at the age of 93.
Miguel Milá has been linked to Eina since its foundation, and has had a role as a lecturer, teacher of Furniture Design and Projects and professor of the postgraduate course in interiors until the beginning of 2000, among other collaborations. In 1987, Miquel Milá was named a Friend of Eina for his involvement in the early days of the school. Since then, he has been awarded the ADI-FAD Gold Delta Award six times, the first time in 1961 for the TMC light. Other awards include the National Design Award (1987), the Sant Jordi Cross (1993), the CONCA National Culture Award (2010) and, posthumously, the Gold Medal of the City of Barcelona (2024).
We remember this great master through his words in his book Lo esencial. El diseño y otras cosas de la vida. "Designing makes you look at life with a magnifying glass (...) My hallmark is an idea, the search for an ingenious solution. And the form is the result of that search, not the application of a formal recepta".
The Board of Trustees and the entire Eina community express our condolences to his family and friends, and our heartfelt appreciation for his great commitment to the world of design and culture.
We remember his figure through the documentary by Poldo Pomés: Miguel Milá. Industrial and interior designer, inventor and bricoleur.