The biggest challenge for furniture designers today is that we live in a world saturated with design and objects. Do we really need new things?,” British designer Faye Toogood asks herself ahead of her role as the 20th Guest of Honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February 2015. Her installation Manufracture will explore a “damaged industry” by opening up her own personal archive which includes unfinished pieces. In her keynote speech, moderated by Cajsa Carlson, deputy editor of Dezeen, Toogood will further delve in to the role of craft in a digital age – in a world of digital manufacturing, is there new value to be found in the handmade?

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