After Milo Baughman (1923-2003) American, Chrome and Glass Mid Century Modern Side Table. A unique shape with a continuous bar below on one side to balance the glass top. Unsigned, but a perfect example of the style nonetheless. 

Size: 15 x 24 x 28 in. 

Milo Ray Baughman, Jr. was born on October 7th, 1923 in Goodland, Kansas. While still a baby his family moved to Long Beach, California, and by the age of thirteen he had demonstrated a keen eye for interior and exterior design that led him to create blueprints for his family’s new home. Following high school he served for four years in the Army Air Forces during World War II, during which time he was active in designing officer’s clubs. After the war he returned to Southern California to study product and architectural design at the Art Center School of Los Angeles and at Chouinard Art Institute, which later became the California Institute of the Arts. 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 Furniture Forum, 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. along with his wife, Olga Lee, and quickly found commissioned work with Glenn of California and Pacific Iron. Lee contributed hand printed fabrics, wallpaper, lamps and accessories to go alongside Baughman’s furniture designs, and together they went on to design unique modernist items for a number of furniture companies including Mode Furniture, The Inco Company, Murray Furniture of Winchendon, Arch Gordon, George Kovacs, Directional, and Drexel, among others. He is most well known, however, for his longtime association with Thayer Coggin Inc., of High Point, North Carolina which began in 1953 and lasted the rest of his life. He also lectured broadly on the state of modern design, extolling the positive benefits of good design on the lives of human beings. In addition to the seminal “High Styles” show at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, Baughman’s furniture has been exhibited in museums around the United States, including the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Baughman was inducted into the Furniture Designer’s Hall of Fame in 1987, by which time he had established a permanent studio in Provo, Utah after converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1965. He worked for Brigham Young University teaching environmental design right up until his death on July 23rd, 2003.