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Designer: Yves Behar. Sayl side chair with sled base provides the same comfort and breezy style found in Sayl work chairs. But they take up less visual space. Elegant—and very affordable—style. Environmentally friendly materials make each Sayl dining chair 92 percent recyclable.
Yves, my CUSP question is: Jørn Utzon (Sydney Opera House), Pier Luigi Nervi (Palazzetto dello Sport), or Felix Candela (Lomas de Cuernavaca Chapel)?
Felix Candela (Lomas de Cuernavaca Chapel) and Pier Luigi Nervi (St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco)
12 years, 5 months ago
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YvesBehar
San Francisco, CA, USA
Designer: Yves Béhar. Inspired by suspension bridges—structures that deliver the most using the least material—Sayls 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between support and freedom. The elastomer strands vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support along the spine where you need it most, and less everywhere else so you are free to move.
Question to Yves from the Cusp Conference.
Yves: You spoke at length at the cusp conference about the source for the forms which comprise the Sayl Chair. You also addressed the economy of materials used to create each part...could you now please elaborate on how you look at the joining together of each of the parts to create the whole?
Too often, task chairs look assembled from a kit of parts, and often they are. There is a dance between SAYL’s functional engineering work and its cosmetic shaping, and there is a relentless desire to have parts run fluidly into each other. For example, I was particularly interested in making the arms look as if they were stretched and growing seamlessly out of their height adjustment posts. There is also the idea of separate parts drawn as if conceived as one: The SAYL’s frameless back is shaped to both express the tension distribution from the top attachments, and visually follow the form and exposed ribbing of the Y- Tower. As a result, the two parts are visually layered as if one.
12 years, 5 months ago
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YvesBehar
San Francisco, CA, USA
Designer: Yves Béhar. Inspired by suspension bridges—structures that deliver the most using the least material—Sayls 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between support and freedom. The elastomer strands vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support along the spine where you need it most, and less everywhere else so you are free to move.
Will sitting in the Sayl chair infuse me with the creative energy, aesthetic vigor and the eco friendly attitude that was integral to its design?
I was an attendee at the CUSP Conference and was very engaged and moved by your design process.
Designer: Yves Béhar. Inspired by suspension bridges—structures that deliver the most using the least material—Sayls 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between support and freedom. The elastomer strands vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support along the spine where you need it most, and less everywhere else so you are free to move.
How do we bring the great design of products like the SAYL chair to the needs of the 65+ population?
65+ year olds represent the fastest growing segment of the population. No one has yet brought good design to independent seniors and the healthcare situation is even worse. Is there anything more depressing than a traditional walker? Not only is it ugly, but its tiny little wheels that get stuck in crevices and non-ergonomic grips make it functionally disgusting. I'm disgusted just writing this.
If it is true that design brings stories to life, what stories are we telling with our current depressing designs? Can we change our perceptions of aging with good design? Who is going to help us do that?
If it is true that design brings stories to life, what stories are we telling with our current depressing designs? Can we change our perceptions of aging with good design? Who is going to help us do that?
Stay tuned...this will be answered soon!
12 years, 5 months ago
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YvesBehar
San Francisco, CA, USA
Designer: Yves Béhar. Inspired by suspension bridges—structures that deliver the most using the least material—Sayls 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between support and freedom. The elastomer strands vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support along the spine where you need it most, and less everywhere else so you are free to move.
Yves, how many design iterations did you go through before realizing the final SAYL solution?
Love your work. My partner bought a Jam Box at O'Hare on our way out of Chicago after Cusp. That thing really puts out!
Ultimately, between the fuseproject shop and Herman Miller’s, we produced 70+ prototypes, constantly building, testing, breaking, and starting all over again.
12 years, 5 months ago
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YvesBehar
Designer: Yves Béhar. Inspired by suspension bridges—structures that deliver the most using the least material—Sayls 3D Intelligent back lets you stretch and move, striking a healthy balance between support and freedom. The elastomer strands vary in thickness and tension to provide greater support along the spine where you need it most, and less everywhere else so you are free to move.
How does the SAYL Chair embody sustainable design?
I'm obsessed with the simplicity and the elegance of the design, but I'm curious to know how the design of the SAYL Chair has an effect on its ergonomics, but also on the environment. When conceiving the design of the SAYL Chair, and then actualizing it, how did you take into account the question of sustainable design, sustainable material, and use less / but get more?
The very foundation of the SAYL chair was to answer the question “how can I do more with less?”. We wanted to deliver ergonomic excellence, and yet do it at a lower cost and a lower carbon footprint. The inspiration from bridges was important as I realized then how minimal a tower and tension cable system is relative to the size and function of a bridge. From that point, a lot of experiments took place, to see if a similar tower element, and a smart material in suspension would deliver back support and allow for upper body movement. The aesthetic of the chair came after we proved to ourselves that we could clearly build a lighter and more efficient design.
12 years, 5 months ago
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YvesBehar