In Her Element: At Friedman Benda, British designer Faye Toogood premieres an esoteric line of furniture and objects inspired by earth, moon, and water

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Faye Toogood is holding her breath. Somewhere in the Czech Republic, her short and squat Roly-Poly chair (or the "dumpy elephant," as she fondly calls it) is being cast in solid glass. "It's a real gamble," she says of the curing process, which takes five months. "None of us knows whether it will survive when they remove the mold." The precarious piece is just one of 23 that make up Toogood's new furnishings series, Assemblage 5: Earth, Moon, and Water, which will make its debut at Manhattan's Friedman Benda gallery in late February. Perhaps it's fitting then that the fate of the show's piece de resistance be left in the hands of shape-shifting elements.