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189: 22: 200:, a publication on modern design complete with photos, dimensions, pricing, as well as designer photos and biographies. He left Frank Brothers in 1947 to establish "Milo Baughman Design Inc.," and quickly did commissions for Glenn of California and Pacific Iron. The "California Modern" collection created for Glenn of California in 1950 used 132:
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, George Kovacs, Directional, and Drexel, among others. He is most well known,
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In 1953, his 50-year association with Thayer Coggin Inc. began. "In a way, Thayer and Milo got their start together," according to Dot Coggin, Thayer’s wife. "Milo came here when the company was in its organisational stage. Thayer was looking for a designer and their relationship began with a
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to establish the Department of Environmental Design, where he remained chairman and adjunct professor for six years while he continued his professional design business. He then split his time between a farmhouse in Virginia and a home in
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Upon completing his studies, he was hired to work at the Frank Brothers furniture store as an interior and custom furniture designer. While there, he met Georgia Christensen, who founded and published
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to go alongside Baughman's furniture designs; both offered their services as interior consultants. The Baughman-Lee showroom was located at 744 1/2 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles.
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every year. Some of his most well-known designs come from this period, including the "951-103" chair, c. 1962, "820–400" chaise (1954), "989–103" Lounge Chair, and "955-304" Sofa.
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introduced "The Milo Baughman Collection" in 1953. During this time, Milo ran his own custom design shop with Olga Lee (his wife at the time) in
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He also lectured broadly on the state of modern design, extolling the positive benefits of good design on the lives of human being.
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in 1987, where he was a senior lecturer at BYU for another nine years. Baughman also lectured at
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headquarters to create three collections. Following this, Murray Furniture of Winchendon
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handshake agreement." By the 1960s and 1970s, his new collection presented at the
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however, for his longtime association with Thayer Coggin Inc., of
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Circa 1970s Milo Baughman Design Drum Tables in Birdseye Maple.
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Modern Furnishings for the Home, William J. Hennessey, 1952
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