--- title: "Yves Béhar" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/yves-behar" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Yves Béhar ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T17:04:35+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Yves Béhar San Francisco, California, United States - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/yves-behar) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/yves-behar) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/yves-behar/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/yves-behar/contributions) - [Website](https://fuseproject.com/) Address: ## Yves Béhar FUSEPROJECT, INC. 1401 16th Street CA 94103 San Francisco, California United States T: 415 908 1492 F: 415 908 1491 [fuseproject.com](https://fuseproject.com/) Products by Yves Béhar [![VOLTA](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/LAUF_39L_LB_2510_SET_B6-c2-6785.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/laufen/volta) [Laufen VOLTA](https://www.stylepark.com/en/laufen/volta) [![Sayl Stool](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/LI_SAY_P_20150701_090_G.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/herman-miller/sayl-stool) [Herman Miller Sayl Stool](https://www.stylepark.com/en/herman-miller/sayl-stool) [![Sayl Side Chair](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/LI_SAY_P_20110223_009_G.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/herman-miller/sayl-side-chair) [Herman Miller Sayl Side Chair](https://www.stylepark.com/en/herman-miller/sayl-side-chair) [![Sayl 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[![Fly](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/d/delightfull/produkte/a/acerbis/produkte/d/delightfull/produkte/n/nurus/produkte/fly/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/fly-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/nurus/fly) [Nurus Fly](https://www.stylepark.com/en/nurus/fly) [![Fly](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/b/bernhardt-design/produkte/fly/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/fly-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/bernhardt-design/fly) [Bernhardt Design Fly](https://www.stylepark.com/en/bernhardt-design/fly) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/yves-behar) Biography Yves Behar is a thinker. And one thing he thinks about a lot is the future. You can see it in his designs--from his reflective red-lacquered laptop for Toshiba to his elegant closed-toe Footprints for Birkenstock to his refined Aliph Jawbone Headset for cell phones. "I believe design's purpose is not only to show us the future, but to bring us the future," he states.The founder of fuseproject ("dedicated to the emotional experience of brands through storytelling"), Behar has been exploring the design world since his childhood in Switzerland. "In Europe, it is double nature to evaluate objects based on how they work and how they look," he explains.Behar grew up in a bicultural home, influenced by his East German mother and Turkish father. "One is functional and modernist and the other, expressive and poetic," he says. "I always try to marry the two in my projects."For a relatively young designer, he has had a remarkable career. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, he started out working with high tech Silicon Valley clients such as Apple and Hewlett Packard, eventually gravitating into the sport, apparel, technology and furniture arenas.One of the countless magazine articles written about Behar called him "the multi-disciplinary designer of our time." His long list of awards includes the prestigious National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, where his work is part of their permanent collection.In 2004 he had two solo exhibitions, one at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the other at the Musee de Design et D'arts Appliques Contemporains in Lausanne, Switzerland."When working with clients, my philosophy is to connect emotionally through ideas and content rather than style," says Behar. "It's less about this or that aesthetic and more about meaningful conversations where people come to agreement in terms of approach and direction." Articles about Yves Béhar [FAIRS & EVENTS Stylepark Selected Award 2025 12/11/2025 Stylepark honors the best new products of the year with the Stylepark Selected Award 2025. We present the award winners to you.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-selected-award-2025) [AWARD NOMINATION Laufen 2025: "VOLTA" 12/9/2025 “Volta” is more than just a washbasin – it is a statement for a new era of design and manufacturing. Designer Yves Béhar has created a form for Laufen that makes the movement of water visible and transforms the everyday act of washing into a sensual ritual.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/laufen-2025-volta-wash-basin-yves-behar-stylepark-magazine) [REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025 New networks 4/15/2025 The Salone del Mobile.Milano and the Milan Design Week took place from 8 to 13 April 2025. In the review, you can find out which ideas are currently moving the creative minds and which concepts were particularly impressive.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/salone-del-mobile-milan-design-week-review-2025-stylepark-magazine) [STYLEPARK LAUFEN Swimming against the tide 4/11/2025 Yves Béhar has rethought the washbasin for Laufen with ‘Volta’. In this interview, he tells us how he translated the dynamics of water into sapphire ceramic and why a new electric tunnel oven influenced his design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/yves-behar-laufen-volta-water-resource-environment-ceramic-sink-stylepark-magazine) [ISH 2025 – REVIEW One solution for everything 3/21/2025 Quo vadis SHK industry? ISH, the world's leading trade fair for HVAC + Water in Frankfurt am Main, provides a broad answer to this question every two years. What is it and what could visitors discover in the halls from 17 to 21 March 2025? Our review.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ish-review-hvac-water-trade-fair-frankfurt-stylepark-magazin) [MICROLIVING The smaller the space, the more valuable the room 7/9/2019 How Ori intends its movable multi-purpose furniture to create storage and usable space in microliving scenarios.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ori-living-yves-behar)