Max Borka, Design critic and curator

I don't know of any other designer who starts talking with such great passion about his love for his wife, children and old and new friends, each time you meet him, and ask him about his work, only to switch roles a few minutes later, and ask about the latest evolution in your private life, over an alarmingly growing number of verres d'amitié. Beat's first and foremost material is not his astonishing technological knowledge, but a deep concern, gusto, warmth and enthusiasm, striving for that happiness that should be any designer's ultimate goal, but unfortunately isn't. God must have known, when he gave him that first name.