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Designed by Yves Béhar
Sayl Chairs
“Fewer parts, less material, and still everything a good chair should be”
“Beauty, elegance, respect”
Details
A new reference point in its class
3D Intelligent back
Sayl’s unframed 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between freedom and support. The elastomer strands of the suspension back vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support in the transition areas along the spine and less everywhere else to encourage a full range of seated movement.
PostureFit
The construction of Sayl’s 3D Intelligent suspension back provides passive PostureFit sacral support, which allows your spine to maintain its natural “S” shape and empowers your body to maintain a healthful posture with less fatigue.
Dynamic support
The foundational shell of the fully upholstered work chair mimics the 3D Intelligent suspension, providing similar dynamic support in a more traditional back. An optional lumbar support is available on both work chair models and provides adjustment over a 10-cm range.
Aesthetic choices
Sayl’s unframed back and Y-Tower support create a striking visual aesthetic that reveals both the designer’s inspiration and intent. The stretch-knit back cover provides a softer, warmer aesthetic while maintaining the beauty, support and breathability of Sayl’s signature 3-D suspension back. A fully upholstered version is also available. Both offer an expressive palette that will complement any environment.
Responsible design
Inspired by suspension bridges, structures that deliver the most using the least material, Yves Béhar applied the engineering principles of these amazing structures to create Sayl. The Eco-Dematerialised design of the work chair uses less material in more inventive ways to provide ergonomic support for people up to 159 kg.
We produce Sayl chairs on three continents to reduce the distance between factory and buyer. This product contains no PVCs and its materials are almost entirely recyclable.
Meet the designer
Yves Behar
Yves Béhar is a thinker. And one thing he thinks about a lot is the future. “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”), Béhar has been exploring the design world since his childhood in Switzerland. “In Europe, it is second nature to evaluate objects based on how they work and how they look,” he explains.
Béhar 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 in California, he started out working with high-tech Silicon Valley clients such as Apple and Hewlett Packard, eventually gravitating into the sport, clothing, technology and furniture arenas.
One of the countless magazine articles written about Béhar 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 Béhar. “It’s less about this or that aesthetic and more about meaningful conversations where people come to an agreement in terms of approach and direction.”
Béhar 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 in California, he started out working with high-tech Silicon Valley clients such as Apple and Hewlett Packard, eventually gravitating into the sport, clothing, technology and furniture arenas.
One of the countless magazine articles written about Béhar 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 Béhar. “It’s less about this or that aesthetic and more about meaningful conversations where people come to an agreement in terms of approach and direction.”
His collaboration with Herman Miller came about through one such conversation. An admirer of Charles and Ray Eames, Béhar decided that he wanted to do something for the company himself. “Design is very much at the centre of Herman Miller’s culture,” he says. “So one day I just picked up the phone, called them and said, ‘Let’s work together.’”
Four years later, Herman Miller introduced his two brilliantly innovative lighting products, Leaf and Ardea.
Given the wide range of products he works on, it would seem that Béhar might have a hard time escaping thoughts of design. Not at all, he says. “I have many outside interests that keep me balanced. For example, I love surfing, windsurfing and snowboarding. So I spend a lot of time in the natural world too.”
As for his future, Béhar says he’s very content designing products for companies who are “looking for departure, change and transformation. I’m continually excited working with people who want to move forward into the future and onto the next generation.”
Four years later, Herman Miller introduced his two brilliantly innovative lighting products, Leaf and Ardea.
Given the wide range of products he works on, it would seem that Béhar might have a hard time escaping thoughts of design. Not at all, he says. “I have many outside interests that keep me balanced. For example, I love surfing, windsurfing and snowboarding. So I spend a lot of time in the natural world too.”
As for his future, Béhar says he’s very content designing products for companies who are “looking for departure, change and transformation. I’m continually excited working with people who want to move forward into the future and onto the next generation.”
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