If you have the chance to stop by the Disseny Hub Barcelona this weekend, you can still visit the exhibition Miguel Milán. (Pre)industrial designer, fantastic. In addition to showing iconic works by the creator (you'll want it all), it explores his life and career, highlighting a very artisanal and respectful way of working, both with materials and crafts. There's a kind of "Milan philosophy," about the whys and hows of the objects he designed, which is also very well explained through a video in which he himself appears talking to several people. My favorite moment is when he talks about benches (he designed many). "I really believe in the bench as an element of communication," said Milan. "When you're on a bench, you're forced to say good morning." It's true that the conversation might end up on a good day, and quite a lot, he also added that, but I loved that way of conceiving a bench. I left the DHUB with a book by Milan under my arm and thinking, precisely, about the Week of the Book in Catalan.

To the designer Miguel Milá (1931-2024), more than commissions, he liked to make commissions for himself, among which are the handle of a cane with boxwood, a tie rack, a belt rack and a leather pendant to hold an old coin he had found in the garden. woman, an elegant fly swatter, made of bamboo and leather, and a coat rack that is also a piece of furniture to store helmets and not have them lying around the entrance of the house. Among them all, one of the most famous were some wicker chairs that he ordered when he got married, and that broke in his house because he wanted them to make them.