Yves Béhar

Yves Béhar designs prefabricated mini houses with LivingHomes

Acclaimed San Francisco-based designer Yves Béhar has thrown his hat in the prefab game, by launching designs for ‘fully-customisable accessory dwelling units’ with LivingHomes (of Plant Prefab) as the Los Angeles’ Summit festival this week. The relatively compact structures are set to...

Yves Béhar takes Hive outdoors with a new home security camera

The 360-degree smart home hub by Hive has gone 480 with a new outdoor camera addition to its home technology collection. The launch of Hive View Outdoor marks the first time the UK-based smart home company has branched out into...

Yves Béhar turns to nature for elemental co-working space in San Francisco

Two years ago designer Yves Béhar tapped into the philosophy that a well-appointed environment, lacking uniform cubicles and sterile lighting, can boost work ethic and foster productivity. He collaborated investor Steve Mohebi and designed Canopy with developer Amir Mortazavi, an...

Samsung brings picture-perfect beauty to the screen with The Frame TV

Next stop: are smart homes making us stupid?

After a decade languishing on consumer tech’s back porch, the smart home has started to enjoy mainstream success. Voice-activated butler bots such as Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit chime in 39 million American homes, while Ring, a video-activated doorbell, has...

Muscle suits, Bitcoin miners and artificial leaves descend on the V&A in a technology takeover

London’s V&A Museum is engaging in a spot of reverse archaeology. For its latest exhibition, ‘The Future Starts Here’, it has scoured labs the world over – from Silicon Valley giants to Scottish start-ups – to collate more than...

The all-hearing Hive Hub 360 hits shelves

Hive’s network of interconnected smart home devices, from Yves Béhar-designed Hive View, to lightbulbs, plugs and smart thermostats, have a new grand master – and it’s got built in WiFi. Like the existing Hive Hub, the new, updated Hive Hub...

Yves Béhar on his ultimate ‘fuse’ project with L’Oréal, empathetic tech, and why he designs

We live in an age where the phrase ‘UV wearable’ is offered in conversation without explanation or definition. For those who aren’t up on their tech literacy, a ‘UV wearable’ is a stick-on sensor that tracks sun exposure, lowering the risk of skin...

Eye spy: Yves Béhar’s Hive View is an all-seeing addition to the smart home

It won’t have escaped even the most ardent Luddite that our devices are trying harder and harder to fulfil new desires by creating ever more complex ways of connecting with the humble home. It started with bulbs and thermostats but...

Moving pictures: Samsung and Yves Béhar create an artful television concept

Korean tech giant Samsung has joined forces with Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject to develop a new model for home entertainment. Launching tonight in Paris, The Frame is a concept television with a design created to fit seamlessly into a home and...

Edge to Edge: Yves Behar’s new Special Edition Movado

Minimalism has always sat comfortably alongside the clutter of complicated watches, yin to its yang. Movado holds the honour of being both the first and the best at championing that state of utter simplicity, with its production of the Museum...

Technically speaking: how designers are putting the home back into home tech

Merchandising slogans like ’intelligent home’ and ’automated home’ have been banded around since the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In recent times, these have become increasingly difficult to decode. Despite the unprecedented potential of smart home technology, when faced with...