Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created . Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now including the 100 laptop.

We had to engineer it to move gracefully in an average breeze and survive in hurricane winds.

And they've become elegant and slender they don't really have thighs they just have one elegant calve on top of another.

Elegance

And it was great, because at the beginning was this apology fest you know, scientists would tell designers, you know, I don't know what style is, I'm not really elegant.

Especially the good ones, not all of them.

They acted sweet.

It's a blessing.

What for? Talk about elegant. You should see the yacht.

She is graceful.

You're so exquisite.

Oh, no!

Priority setting within the medium term plan for the period 1998 2001

An elegant music organizer

It's kind of neat. OK.

A very highclass document.

This feels just elegant.

So refined. That thing she has on her head...

Black sun? I think you're very elegant. Thank you.

An elegant theme for plasma

Quaint, aren't they?

That's elegant.

And then there was good design for very low price.

It is on the first floor of a smart Queen Anne terrace and it is a testament to the new design that Joanne hasn't packed her bags and sold on.

She looks very elegant.

I think you're just elegant.

That grace, that charm...

Well, it's a very elegant shade of pink.

And, more importantly, they're well dressed.

Nature does something much more elegant.

DNA is a very elegant molecule.

It makes a pretty elegant scene.

Most of the time I was in France.

They could also be elegance... a certain yellow.

And that is that despite all the resources at my disposal, and despite all our kind of apparent sophistication, I know I could never have designed something as elegant and as totally in tune with the local conditions as this. OK?

The personnel assigned to this project, to be based in the office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Jakarta, will have appropriate access to all parts of Indonesia to identify priority needs.

Then I will disembowel myself in good grace.

You start off by pretending You're a dancer with grace

Insulation, better design, buy green electricity where you can.

You know, this is almost like designing something like Maya that an eight year old can use.

You know, it's funny to think that just a year ago I sat in that nice bridge pub actually planning to murder her.

Pfeiffer, as he loves and lives. Elegant, beautiful, thoughtful... and so alluring.

The adopted digital transmission link design delivered an exceptional quality of service.

You'll look exquisite wearing that, dear.

I shall be the most sophisticated woman at the Glen Cove station.