Despite being born and raised in Madrid, Miguel Domingo’s father is originally from Segovia and his mother from Seville. Since he was a child he loved animals and was willing to become a veterinary from an early age; but during his studies of high school at the George Washington Institute of Beverly Hills, he starts to discover art through friends, who were studying the Fine Arts career or were related to art exhibitions. Suddenly, his aspirations move in a different direction and he realizes that what he really wants to become is deeply influenced by art and design.
Miguel Domingo went to high school at the George Washington Institute of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. After this experience he lived and studied at the Northern Line University of London for one year and then, he moved back to the US to start his degree at the prestigious Parsons School of Design of New York. During this period he encounters top architects like Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel or Frank Gehri lecturing some of his seminars. During this period he received an offer to become the art director of Sotheby’s Auction House; where he will stay for 2 years. When he finishes his career, Miguel obtains the highest grade in his class and he consolidates his passion for architecture and design.
During this period in New York he met William Rand who was his contemporary art history professor at that time, and will soon become his mentor. His first opportunity will arrive with “AVA” in 1999 when William Rand will ask him to design the scenography, catalogue, and poster of the exhibition of Ava Gadner.
Upon concluding his degree he moves back to California to where he will study an Interior Design Master at the OTIS University of Los Angeles California during one year.
His first experience in architecture starts at The Mamam Studio in California with David Maman, the inventor of the American Rationalism of the 50´s, who worked with Kandinski and had been the director of the Bauhaus in Germany. During two years, Miguel Domingo works as an internship but soon will become a real architect with his own clients; it is a period of spectacular houses that he defines like jewels of the architecture like “The Wind House” of singer Witney Houston that he designed personally.
Suddenly he meets Ed Gabor in Los Angeles and he changes radically his life deciding to leave aside all private clients to work in different projects. Among other works of that period the Burbark offices of Wella opened the doors of Miguel to another opportunity; to become the architect in charge of the “One Key Studio” production offices of famous Francis Ford Coppola. Miguel will be leading this project which will be awarded with more than twenty different awards and for the first time will be nominated and winner of the “Best Design of the Year” at the International Design Awards of the Chicago Architecture Academy.
Since then he will become the project director of the Gabor’s Ed Architecture Studio where he will spend nine years of his life devoted to his work. During that period, the studio earned 37 international design awards.
In 2003 he decides to go back to Spain and spend some time off; where he will be designing furniture for world prestigious designers like Tom Ford and Karl Lagerfeld and for brands like Dom Perignon or FENDI. Since then, his first center of operations is placed in Madrid, and he achieves numerous works for prestigious companies as well as own projects; in which he has given priority to the ambition for coming always further and with the best quality, and a wide vision across which technologies, trends and dedication have joined.
The expression of his values goes far beyond his profession; his innate talent and his enormous passion for design have driven his skills and abilities to improvement and to perfection. The vision of his dream makes him an optimist at all times, the bohemian artist that works for the sake of the art and enjoys his passion entirely.
Miguel is a unique creator because he is able to build almost any architectural concept and will complement its interior design with custom-made furniture and with textiles made with incredible patterns that born from his extraordinary illustrations and his love for detail.
MAD Architecture and Design is the consequence of the introduction in Spain of the innovative concept of "Global Design ", which includes all the aspects in which the design takes part. Already it is not enough, only, to design buildings as mere wrappers, more or less beautiful but it is necessary to plan its functionality, its interior disposition, the infinity of applications to which it can give place, and articulate the way in which this removes to end, already from the moment of its gestation.
MAD includes all the imaginable facets of the design, constituting for itself an important creative center, capable of facing to the most diverse projects. For it one counts, with the indisputable preparation of its professionals specializing in different areas. Inside the studio team stands out the youth and the variety of points of view, including different facets of the design of integral form, as one quite taking care to the maximum each of the design parts.
