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Thayer Coggin is an American furniture manufacturer based in High Point, North Carolina. Founded in 1953 by J. Thayer Coggin, the company produces modern and contemporary residential furniture. It is particularly associated with American furniture designer Milo Baughman, who began working with the company in 1953 and continued designing for it for five decades.[1][2]

History

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J. Thayer Coggin founded the company in High Point in 1953 after serving as a United States Army medic during World War II.[2][3] At the time, much of the American furniture industry was oriented toward traditional and Colonial Revival styles. Coggin instead chose to concentrate on contemporary furniture, a relatively small part of the domestic market at the time.[4]

The company began working with designer Milo Baughman during its first year of operation. Their association developed into a long-running designer-manufacturer relationship, with Baughman designing furniture for the company over the following five decades.[2][5] A 1999 Decorating profile credited the collaboration with helping shape American contemporary upholstered furniture.[5]

By the 1970s, some furniture originally designed for the company's residential collection was also being specified for commercial interiors. This demand led to the development of Thayer Coggin Institutional, a contract-furniture operation for which Baughman also provided design direction.[6]

Coggin remained involved with the company until the 1990s.[4] As of 2023, the company remained family owned and continued to manufacture furniture in High Point using a bench-made production system.[2][1]

Milo Baughman collaboration

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Baughman's work for Thayer Coggin included upholstered seating, tables and other furniture. His designs for the company received recurring coverage from American design writers over the following decades.[7][8]

Among the collections discussed by contemporary critics were Environment 70 in the late 1960s, Homage to Mackintosh in the 1970s, and a series of Art Deco- and Art Moderne-influenced collections during the early 1980s.[9][7][8] Baughman later incorporated influences from the Italian Memphis Group in his Prisma collection.[10]

A 2010 Modernism retrospective described Baughman and Coggin's relationship as a 50-year collaboration in which Baughman was given considerable creative freedom while Coggin contributed manufacturing and prototyping expertise. The article noted that Baughman produced hundreds of designs during the collaboration and remained associated with Thayer Coggin for the remainder of his life.[11]

During the 1990s, Thayer Coggin began returning earlier Baughman furniture to production.[12][5] After Baughman and Coggin both died in 2003, the company continued manufacturing and reissuing selected Baughman designs.[2][13]

Original Thayer Coggin furniture by Baughman has also attracted collector interest. In 2004, The Morning Call reported growing interest in postwar modern furniture and noted that Baughman-designed Thayer Coggin pieces were selling on the secondary market.[14] Interest in vintage examples continued in subsequent decades.[15][11][2][1]

See also

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Bringle, Jennifer (December 22, 2023). "How Midcentury Modern Thayer Coggin Stays Relevant After 70 Years". WWD.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sheridan, Patricia (June 8, 2013). "Furniture maker Thayer Coggin marks anniversary, long collaboration with modernist designer". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  3. ↑ "Contemporary design icon Thayer Coggin dies at 80". Furniture Today. June 2, 2003.
  4. 1 2 "Thayer Coggin Courts Modern Market With Classic Designs". Fabrics & Furnishings International. September 20, 2001.
  5. 1 2 3 Arnold, Sarah (Spring 1999). "A Modern Tale". Decorating. pp. 92–96.
  6. ↑ "TCI: "a high fashion line, designed for comfort"" (PDF). Interiors. 135 (6): 112. January 1976.
  7. 1 2 Reif, Rita (October 23, 1975). "Renaissance of the Lattice Look". The New York Times. p. 45.
  8. 1 2 Hoffman, Marilyn (July 15, 1983). "Contemporary designs". The Christian Science Monitor.
  9. ↑ Reif, Rita (September 18, 1968). "With This Furniture, Who Needs a Decorator?". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ Giovannini, Joseph (May 3, 1984). "Trends at Furniture Market: Enter the Avant-Garde Look". The New York Times.
  11. 1 2 Polan, Judy (Summer 2010). "Milo Baughman Revealed". Modernism. Vol. 13, no. 2. pp. 46–55.
  12. ↑ "Furniture Makers Go Modern but Remain Web-Shy". Los Angeles Times. October 21, 1999.
  13. ↑ Sherrod, Pamela (November 9, 2003). "Modern vision of 2 men alive in design legacy". Home & Garden. Chicago Tribune.
  14. ↑ "With its modern style, Thayer Coggin furniture from the '60s still sells well". The Morning Call. August 13, 2004.
  15. ↑ McMasters, Kelly (July 1, 2006). "Bringing Back Baughman". Metropolis.
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