Ermenegild Miralles i Anglès
Barcelona (1859) - (1931)
Trained in the workshop of Pere Domènech, father of the architect L. Domènech i Montaner, he was one of the renovators of the technique of bookbinding and a prominent collector or Modernista bindings.
He was an active man who created and edited the magazine Hispania and promoted the ideas of Modernisme.
In collaboration of Ramon de Montaner, he founded a big lithography and industrial bookbinding company that became very important.
He introduced a new technique that imitated papier mâché. As early as 1892 he presented some tiles made of chromolithographed cardboard that could be used as supports instead of mosaic, which was much more expensive, at the National Exhibition of Artistic Industries. He employed this technique in decorating the Torino café (1902; Passeig de Gràcia, 18; no longer in existence) and the Petit Torino (1916; Escudellers, 8; now Grill Room).
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