Thayer Coggin Milo Baughman Gimme Shelter Sofa

Crafting bench-made furniture in High Point, NC since 1953, Thayer Coggin carved out a distinct identity in the home furnishings market through a commitment to timeless modern design. Through founder Thayer Coggin’s vision and Distinguished Design Award honoree Milo Baughman’s designs, Thayer Coggin created a body of work that includes of some of the most recognizable furniture designs in the world.

In a process unique in today's furniture industry, each Thayer Coggin furniture order is still bench-made by a single craftsperson. This extraordinary technique ensures continuity among related pieces, and guarantees the highest quality upholstery that founder Thayer Coggin demanded.

Thayer Coggin upholstery items are highly customizable and made to order. Hundreds of thoughtfully curated fabrics, leathers, wood and metal finish options allow clients to make each piece uniquely their own. Pairing rigorous aesthetics with sustainability, Thayer Coggin utilizes the highest quality cushioning available, and ensures all foams used are environmentally-safe and produced without the use of ozone-destroying CFC’s. 

To buy Thayer Coggin furniture is to invest in originally designed, superbly crafted, premium modern furniture designed and manufactured to last a lifetime.

Milo Baughman (1923-2003) was a pioneer in modern design, and one of the leading modern furniture designers of the second half of the 20th century.

Baughman's uniquely American designs are forward-thinking and distinctive, yet unpretentious. The relaxed and timeless quality of his highly influential work continues to be collected, reinvented and revived by designers around the world.

Paramount to Baughman's design philosophy was that good design is enduring design. Baughman's characteristic restraint did not permit the look of mere novelty to enter in. Rather, he achieved a look that is uncompromisingly modern, but which never violates the timeless standards of classic good taste.

From 1953 to 2003, Thayer Coggin and Milo Baughman collaborated on designs, engineering and manufacturing techniques that came to define the mid-century modern era of American residential furniture. Baughman's work was included in "High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and he was inducted in the the Furniture Hall of Fame in 1987 along with Thayer Coggin in 2004.