Miguel Milá, WS lamp for Polinax

MIGUEL MILÁ (Barcelona, 1931-Bilbao, 2024) for Polinax.
WS table lamp, ca. 1964.
Double translucent methacrylate lampshade in "caldera" color on the outside and white on the inside. Aluminum base.
Delta de Plata ADI-FAD Award 1962.
It presents light signs of use.
Measurements: 61 x 44 x 44 cm.; 30 cm. base diameter.

The WT lamp (ceiling) was originally designed by Miguel Milá in collaboration with Gres in 1962 and produced by the firm Tramo. The definitive version of the WS (table) lamps went into production in 1964, when Polinax began to manufacture the models conceived for J. A. Coderch's Hotel de Mar. Double injection molds were used to create an inner shade of white methacrylate covered by a translucent and colored outer shade.

The WS lamp is the tabletop version of the WT suspension lamp that Milá designed in 1962 and which received the Delta de Plata award. It is characterized by its large, sinuously curved shade made of white injected methacrylate. The foot is entirely composed of a circular base of cast aluminum painted black and a shaft of the same color and material. With this design, Miguel Milá once again demonstrates his ability to imagine new lighting concepts based on simple forms of great functionality and aesthetic beauty.

Miguel Milá began his studies at the School of Architecture, although he soon abandoned them to work in the office of Federico Correa and Alfonso Milà. In 1958 he set up his own business as an industrial and interior designer. In the early sixties he witnessed the birth of Spanish industrial design, and throughout his long career he has been awarded the ADI FAD Delta de Oro prize six times, the first time in 1961, for the "TMC" lamp. He was also awarded the National Design Award in 1987, the Sant Jordi Cross in 1993, and in 2010 the CoNCA National Culture Award.