Furniture Maverick Thayer Coggin Dies at 80

HIGH POINT - Thayer Coggin, known for half a century in the furniture industry as a nonconformist, died in May at High Point, N.C., after a long illness. He was 80. Coggin separated himself from mainstream manufacturing in 1953 when he teamed up with designer Milo Baughman, a member of the California Modern Movement, who was seeking a company to...