My Life My Style: Suhel Seth

Weekend Team
Last Updated : Feb 09 2013 | 1:19 PM IST
Best work moment:
Every moment that I am working.

Books on your bedside:
The Seer Who Walks Alone...Pupul Jayakar, Shakespeare’s Richard III and Joseph Anton by Rushdie.

Massage or workout to de-stress:
Treadmill every day and a swim.

Designs that have caught your eye:
The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen.

Your IT tools:
Mac Powerbook and a Blackberry Bold.

Favourite spirit:
Grey Goose and Talisker.

Favourite wine:
None.

Favourite champagne:
Dom Perignon

Your sleeping ritual:
Preferably with someone.

Favourite TV show:
The Newshour

Best gift received:
Vintage Manuscript of Byron.

Best gift given:
Books, all the time

Favourite cuisine:
Chinese.

What food items do you like to shop for?
Truffles and Chocolates

Newspapers, TV channels and websites you prefer:
All

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with driver or back seat like a sahib?
Back, so that I can lounge and read.

On a plane do you network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Sleep and read (in that order).

Fancy coffee or masala tea?
Green Tea from Mariage Frias in Paris.

What do you cook on your day off:
Eggs or Khow Suey

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
Never because its easier to switch brands.

Are you a beach or mountain person?
Beach.

What’s your fragrance?
Le Labo.

You get your work clothes from:
Huntsman, Saville Row.

The shoemaker you trust?
Berluti.

Gels, oils and lotions you swear by:
Geo F Trumper.

Your favourite eveningwear?
Black t-shirt with jeans. Or a suit.

What’s your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
Green apple. On weekends, eggs and toast.

Your current set of wheels:
Ferrari California.

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
Read.

Favourite café:
Laduree, Paris.

Favourite restaurant:
Wasabi.

Workday lunch is?
Home-made.

Your workout regime:
Treadmill.

Your ideal holiday:?
Lazing and reading

Your ideal dance music:
Anything, but has to be vintage: Leonard Cohen.

At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
Just love listening to people make an ass of themselves.

God for you is...
Invisible.

A few of your Goddesses are?
None.

Alpha males you know:
Mahatma Gandhi.

Your favourite motto:
Do now what you plan to do tomorrow.
Suhel Seth
Managing Partner, Counselage
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First Published: Feb 09 2013 | 12:20 AM IST

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