Miguel Milà Chandeliers and Pendants

Miguel Milá 'M68' pendant lamp in red aluminum for Santa & Cole Founded in 1985 in Barcelona, Santa & Cole produces iconic pieces by such luminaries as llmari Tapiovaara, Miguel Milá and other European icons with a commitment to faithfully re-edition their legendary designs with uncompromising attention to detail, materials and craftsmanship. The 'M68' lamp was originally designed in 1962 by renowned creator Miguel Milá. Featuring a large bell-shaped opaque shade the light is wonderfully diffused onto the surfaces beneath. These re-editions have been upgraded from the original methacrylate lamps...

A set of three pending lamps of different sizes designed by Miguel Milá, circa 1970. Manufactured by Tramo (Spain). In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use. Miguel Milá represents like no other person Spanish contemporary design. He belongs to the Pioneer's generation of the 1950s and has seen how many of his pieces of furniture and lamps have become real classics. Miguel Milá was born in a Catalan aristocratic family with strong links with the artistic world (his ancestors assigned the Milá House, also known as La Pedrera, to Gaudí) and started working as an interior designer in the architecture studio of his brother Alfonso Milá and Federico Correa. It was the end of the 1950s, a time of crisis when Spain hardly knew what Industrial Design was. There was practically no industry, everything was generally handmade. This framework marked the way Miguel Milá understood design, being sensitive to the pleasure of touching and closer to traditional techniques. Despite the shortage of objects, means and raw materials of the time, Miguel Milá started designing lamps and furniture, that he soon manufactured in his own company, Tramo. Miguel Milá set up this company with two friends, architects F. Ribas Barangé and E. Pérez Ullibari. This is how Miguel Milá got involved with Industrial Design. Out of Tramo, apocopation of Trabajos molestos (annoying works, that is, all the things little brothers have to do), many projects came out. For instance, he developed the previous versions of the famous TMC and TMM lamps (1958 and 1961), timeless Classic designs that are still selling nowadays. Sometime after, he set up his own Industrial and interior design studio. Miguel Milá participated with the designers and architects of that period in the first meetings in Barcelona to discuss on modernity in architecture, out of which came the question of how to promote design and implant its professional practice. These meetings culminated in the foundation of the ADI-FAD, together with Antoni de Moragas, André Ricard, Bohigas, Cirici Pellicer, Manel Cases and Rafael Marquina. From its beginnings, this association sought to foster Spanish design abroad, and to make a connection between young Spanish professionals and international design. "I am in reality a pre-Industrial designer- has Milá stated-. I feel more comfortable with the technical procedures that allow correcting failures, experimenting during the process, and controlling it to the maximum. That is where my preference for noble materials comes from, the preference for materials that know how to age." This is the case, among others, of the wooden Cesta lamps...

Globo pendant lamps designed in 1965 by Miguel Milá for Polinax, Spain. Globe made of matt polyethylene plastic that screws onto the bakelite support where the electrical system is l...

Miguel Milá 'M68' pendant lamp in chromed aluminum for Santa & Cole Founded in 1985 in Barcelona, Santa & Cole produces iconic pieces by such luminaries as llmari Tapiovaara, Miguel Milá and other European icons with a commitment to faithfully re-edition their legendary designs with uncompromising attention to detail, materials and craftsmanship. The 'M68' lamp was originally designed in 1962 by renowned creator Miguel Milá. Featuring a large bell-shaped opaque shade the light is wonderfully diffused onto the surfaces beneath. These re-editions have been upgraded from the original methacrylate lamps...

Exquisite timelessness. A remarkable exponent of a time when Spanish industrial design was just establishing itself as a professional discipline. This pendant lamp was awarded the Gold Delta award in 1964, the highest distinction for a product in Spain. The jury that year was chaired by leading Swiss designer and artist Max Bill (proponent of the Ulm School...

Ceiling lamp designed by Miguel Milà. By unknown manufacturer, circa 1970. In good original condition, preserving a beautiful patina, with minor wear c...

Miguel Milá 'M68' pendant lamp in white aluminum for Santa & Cole Founded in 1985 in Barcelona, Santa & Cole produces iconic pieces by such luminaries as llmari Tapiovaara, Miguel Milá and other European icons with a commitment to faithfully re-edition their legendary designs with uncompromising attention to detail, materials and craftsmanship. The 'M68' lamp was originally designed in 1962 by renowned creator Miguel Milá. Featuring a large bell-shaped opaque shade the light is wonderfully diffused onto the surfaces beneath. These re-editions have been upgraded from the original methacrylate lamps...

Miguel Milá 'M68' pendant lamp in black aluminum for Santa & Cole Founded in 1985 in Barcelona, Santa & Cole produces iconic pieces by such luminaries as llmari Tapiovaara, Miguel Milá and other European icons with a commitment to faithfully re-edition their legendary designs with uncompromising attention to detail, materials and craftsmanship. The 'M68' lamp was originally designed in 1962 by renowned creator Miguel Milá. Featuring a large bell-shaped opaque shade the light is wonderfully diffused onto the surfaces beneath. These re-editions have been upgraded from the original methacrylate lamps...

Evocative of a woman's shoulders. A beautiful, bell-shaped pendant lamp that features pleasing curves and a timeless feel. The M68 is an aluminium reissue of the famous pop lamp from...