British designer Faye Toogood’s crystal chair conforms to the curves of the maternal body. When Toogood founded her London-based studio in 2008, she worked with sharp, angular lines and in bronze, steel, and stone to, in her words, “prove a woman could craft in the materials of her male contemporaries.” When Toogood returned to the studio after giving birth, she began creating compositions referencing maternity. Shapes were rounder, plumper, and fuller. The artist designed a seat where, if feeling “roly-poly,” a pregnant person could rest their belly on this chair’s deep, scooped seat and encircling back and sides. Crystal, a heavy medium with the appearance of weightlessness, here symbolizes water. The work was cast at a glassworks, or studio, in what was then the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and took three months—a period of gestation—to cool, naturally resulting in unique variations in shape and air bubbles.