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"The 1188 Chair (1968) was Milo Baughman’s favorite chair and
the one with which he chose to furnish the home of business partner and friend
Thayer Coggin. Given that the Coggin family could have picked any dining chair
in their company’s inventory, the 1188 is something special indeed. Baughman
and Coggin met in 1953 and formed a powerful partnership that lasted for five
decades. Based in North Carolina, the Thayer Coggin company is still the
exclusive manufacturer of Baughman furniture to this day. The designer’s work
was included in High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in 1985. Baughman was inducted into the Furniture Design
Hall of Fame in 1987. Made in U.S.A."
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"Milo Ray Baughman, Jr., born in
Goodland, Kansas on October 7, 1923, was a modern furniture designer. His
American designs were forward-thinking and distinctive, yet unpretentious and
affordable. Contemporary furniture designers and dealers continue to copy,
reinvent, and revive his work in the new and secondary decorative arts markets.
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Baughman designed for a number of
furniture companies starting in the mid-1940s until his death, including Mode
Furniture, Glenn of California, The Inco Company, Pacific Iron, Murray
Furniture of Winchendon, Arch Gordon, Design Institute America, George Kovacs,
Directional, Henredon and Drexel, among others. He is most famous, however, for
his longtime association with Thayer Coggin Inc., of High Point, NC, which
began in 1953 and lasted until his death in 2003.
He also lectured broadly on the
state of modern design, extolling the positive benefits of good design on the
lives of human beings, and helping to define and shape the discussion for years
to come."
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