My Life My Style: Sameer Reddy

Best work moment
The moment when a client makes a meaningful connection and we share the experience together.

Books on your bedside
In Search of Being by G.I. Gurdjieff

Designs that have caught your eye recently
Prada's most recent Summer/Spring 2014 collection, a Gae Aulenti coffee table from the 1980's that is now in my living room

Your IT tools
iMac and Powerbook

Favourite spirit
Tequila

Favourite wine
Pinot Noir

Favourite champagne
Krug

Your sleeping ritual
Amazing earplugs and a contoured pillow help to still my mind

Favourite TV show
Mad Men

Best gift received
The seed of awareness from God

Best gift given
Attempts at sincerity

Favourite accessory
Well-crafted leather shoes

Favourite cuisine
Japanese, Sushi specifically, Toro extra-specifically

What food items do you like to shop for?
Imported Spanish tuna and Trader Joe's chocolate-covered Powerberries

Newspaper TV channels and websites you prefer
Drudge Report and Huffington Post for a balanced portrait of the state of online American news aggregators

On a plane do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Catch up on films; can't seem to sleep much on a plane

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Masala tea

What do you cook on your day off?

I'm cooking a Greek eggplant, tomato and feta terrine tomorrow

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
Not unless they're offering a cash prize

Are you a mountain person or a beach person?
Mountain, with occasional trips to the beach

Your favourite city
New York City with a growing longing for Los Angeles

What's your fragrance?
Comme des Garcons' Incense Series Ouarzazate

You get your work clothes from
I don't distinguish between work and 'personal' clothes - I wear the same things as often as possible.

The shoe maker you trust your sole with
I don't have shoes made. I like vintage Prada boots and buy them in multiples

The gels and oils and lotions you swear by
Pratima Neem purifying cream, Organic Pharmacy carrot butter cleanser

Your favourite evening wear
Black vintage Issey Miyake Pleats Please pants with a simple white cotton mull 3/4 sleeve shirt and Number (N)ine black Gladiator sandals

Your current set of wheels
I live in New York City, so usually it's the L train, which broke down today, so I chose to walk home.

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
Cell

God for you is…
Something I hope to become closer to.

Favourite cafe
Cafe Gitane in NoLita

Favourite restaurant

Blue Ribbon Sushi in Soho

Workday lunch is
Recently, a Greek salad and a bit of hummus and gluten-free bread

Your workout regime
Spotty at best. Push-ups and sit-ups, occasionally a trek to the gym

Your ideal holiday
At an Aman resort, in the sun, with my parents and/or a friend or two

Your ideal dance music
90's Deep House

At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
I try to have intimate conversations because otherwise I feel overwhelmed

A few of your Goddesses are
The Virgin Mary, Lakshmi, Kali

Alpha males you know
Myself, and it's nothing to be proud of

Your favourite motto
Know thyself
Sameer Reddy
Energy healer and contemporary artist;
Director,Transformance Center, New York