Collectible furniture, lighting, and spatial objects in cast glass and metal. An authored studio by Ben Stagl and Ally Reza.
Cast Glass · Metal · Light · Gravity · Sky · Stone
A Chicago studio by Ben Stagl and Ally Reza, merging material craft with digital fabrication in work that feels at once ancient and future-facing.
ANDII grows out of ChiLab Studio, Ben and Ally's custom fabrication shop, and its years of making ambitious work for artists, architects, brands, and public spaces. Here the center of gravity shifts from fabrication-for-hire to original authorship. Same hands. New voice.
The name is rooted in androgenii, the fusion of energies. AND is conjunction and partnership, a meeting point; II is two authors, two energies, two material histories. The work joins Ally's cast glass to Ben's metal in objects made to be lived with, released in editions for the collectible and gallery context.
A body of work inspired by New Mexico: vast skies, mineral landscapes, desert light, and the contrast between celestial space and grounded matter.
Sky is light made physical — glass, atmosphere, reflection, celestial movement. Stone is grounded and mineral — gravity, metal, heat, permanence, form that holds its place. Mineral mass that anchors the luminous.
Polished mirror raised on raw mineral: sky caught and held in metal, anchored to stone. Each mirror is one of a kind, produced in series — a reflective form married to a single stone: calcite, selenite, obsidian, pyrite, sapphire. Large-scale floor mirrors in development.
Pricing and availability upon request.
This work draws raw minerals from the earth and sets them beneath forms that gather the sky.
The stone is never only a pedestal. It is half of the work — matter pulled from the ground, joined to light, glass, and reflection. Each piece is a meeting point: what lies below bound to what passes above. Selenite, calcite, obsidian, pyrite, and sapphire each bring their own weight, color, and memory into the object.
Translucent gypsum, grown in long crystal beds. A lunar stone that carries light through its body and seems to glow from within.
Soft sky-blue and luminous white. A cool, banded mass that reads like clouded light made solid — the nearest the ground comes to atmosphere.
Volcanic glass cooled in an instant. The oldest mirror humankind knew — dark, depthless, made for scrying.
Crystalline gold struck from rock. Hard geometry and a warm metallic fire that catches and throws the light.
Deep mineral blue, the weight of night held in a single stone. Rare, dense, and quietly luminous.
Artist and fabricator with an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Two decades of cast and fabricated metal, from foundry bronze to architectural commissions, including permanent public works across Chicago and beyond.
Glass artist and maker whose work expands cast and slumped glass across sculpture, lighting, and object design, from collectible editions to permanent installations.
For collection inquiries, gallery representation, and commissions, we would be glad to hear from you.
or write to inquiries@andii.com · Chicago, Illinois