Incollect Magazine - Issue 12

Incollect Magazine 89 as accurately summarized by a writer for The New York Times. It is no surprise that Milo Baughman’s designs were popular and commercially successful. He collaborated with Directional, Drexel, Glenn of California, and other American furniture manufacturers, but it was his 50-year partnership and friendship with North Carolina furniture maker Thayer Coggin that defined his career. This collaboration resulted in enduring and classic designs, such as the cantilevered 989 T-back chair and the semi-circular 825 modular sectional sofa. Thayer Coggin continues to produce Baughman furniture today. Coggin was destined for a career in the furniture trade, coming from a family of furniture manufacturers. After returning from World War II, he started his furniture brand in High Point, which was then the national center for furniture manufacturing. His goal was to create high-quality modern furniture that represented a departure from the more traditional styles of the time. Meanwhile, a young Milo Baughman was trying to market his designs to furniture companies in High Point and visited Coggin. In the 1940s, Baughman had established a reputation in Undoubtedly inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome designed for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67 World’s Fair in Montreal, Milo Baughman came out with his ‘Geodesic Coffee Table,’ Model 5013 for Directional Furniture in the 1970s. Stunning from every angle, with a precisely engineered and visually balanced bronze geometric framework base and octagonal glass top. Available from Lobel Modern on Incollect.com Burlwood and polished chrome or brass furniture burst onto the scene in the 1970s, and no one did it better than Milo Baughman. The essence of 70s glamour, with no distracting hardware, just 4 book-matched panels of dramatically burled olivewood floating on an elegant frame of polished chrome. Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin, 1970s. Available from De Angelis on Incollect.com