Yves Béhar

Yves Béhar is a Swiss-born industrial designer and entrepreneur, best known as the founder of San Francisco-based design studio Fuseproject. Yves is recognised for a human-centred approach that balances innovation, functionality, and sustainability. His work is rooted in the belief that design accelerates the adoption of new ideas, shaping products that transform how we live.

Over the last two decades, Yves and his team have pioneered design as a force for positive social and environmental change, creating iconic products including the Herman Miller Sayl Chair. Béhar has received more than 300 awards and has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 Visionaries, with Forbes recognising him as the “Most Influential Industrial Designer in the World.”