Identifying Milo Baughman Cantilever Stools  

Because I don't use Scandi furniture (although I find them beautiful), and have an affinity

for the 70's and 80's, I end up responding to every Baughman question, and hope to not end up sounding snarky.

I had a huge chrome and wood lounge chair, and a BUNCH of other "Baughman" stuff that just isn't Baughman, because they still had labels (CAL-STYLE, VIRCO, ETC). At least half of Baughman ads I see are

deceptive, and the prices seem so insane I have to respect these people's "hustle".

Fabric? I would do shaggy black or white faux mongolian, or white leather, or wacky colorful Girard, or marine vinyl if you have kids. White looks good to me with with chrome and wood.

Anyway, Baughman "may" have used the wooden cross bar in some of his designs (please

see "MetroRetro" website for an example attributed to him, but again, they never show Thayer

Coggin or other tags/markings/paperwork). Those are really very glam to be Baughman (the man

was a Mormon for gosh sakes). High dollar.

According to the site, he 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"

This list may be wishful thinking, maybe not, it is possible Baughman was an illuminati shapeshifter who could

teleport to different locations and never needed sleep, making it possible to design everything - made of

chrome, wood, glass, fabric, leather, fiberglass, lucite, steel, nickel, and mostly chrome and glass- during

the 70's, when he must have presumably been so stimulated on Bolivian marching powder and Tab that

he was able to maintain this prodigious output.

If they are heavy with good welds than maybe. The welds on Baughman stuff is always smooth and almost seamless, no lumpiness.

If you ever sell them, I saw a good one the the other day: "Chairs evoking the spirit of Milo Baughman". Made me think of using "Chairs Evoking the Spirit of the Dialectic Struggle Between Ettore Sotsass and Alvar Aalto".

Why don't people ever attribute anything fake to Ward Bennet? Exactly.

What Stig said, except I find that 7/8 ths of Baughman attributions are fallacious.

Do not stand or put weight on the wood part, it will likely tip forward. All the chairs that copied Marcel Breuer's Cesca chair form seem to tip forward, Breuer's cantilevered chairs somehow are very stable.

Zephyr, please . . . this is a family forum.

Ward Bennet was a perv.

Best,

Aunt Mark

Ha. I appreciate all the info! I wouldn't know where to start as far as price for selling, especially since I don't truly know who made them, but I shall do some digging. I think I'm going with white leather.

Thanks!

Matt

Sorry Cd. You are, of course, correct.

I will clean up my language, and hopefully I can keep it monosyllabic, ......

.... oh, I did it again.

That is the last one, I promise.

Is There any evidence that supports Milo Baughman's relationship with Design Institute Of America.?

These chairs are "Design Institute of America" and are the closest I've found thus far to matching the ones that I purchased.