My Life My Style: Vivek Sahni

Best work moment
Winning a design prize for the first identity project I worked on, when I had just started working on my own

Books on your bedside
The architecture of happiness by Alain de Botton, The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, The current World of Interiors and Vogue

Massage or workout to de-stress
Shaktichalan Kriya

Your IT tools
My iPhone and iPad mini and, of course, my pen and paper-pad

Designs that have caught your eye recently
Thomas Heatherwick's London Bus, art deco glass by Daum from the 1930s, mobiles by Asif Khan for Danese Milano

Favourite spirit
Barbados Rum

Favourite wine
Chateau Margaux

Favourite champagne
Louis Roederer

Your sleeping ritual
Play with my dog, put my head on the pillow and I'm asleep

Favourite TV show
Currently Downton Abbey

Best gift received
Can't really say, but one of the really nice ones I got is a 17th century stone Garuda from South India

Best gift given
40 stone lingams in a large stone yoni vessel to an artist friend on her 40th birthday

Favourite cuisine
Chinese of every sort apart from the Punjabi version

What food items do you like to shop for?
Chocolate, love finding good chocolate

Newspaper, TV channels and websites you prefer
BBC, NY Times Online, Caravan, This is Glamorous, The New Republic

Where do you like to sit when being driven? Upfront with driver of back seat like sahib?
Back, went through the windscreen when I was 19

On a plane do you prefer to network, sleep or catch up on films and reading?
Films and reading since I never seem to have time for that

What do you cook on your day off
Homey don't do that

Do you fill customer feedback forms? Why?
No, never have, unless I'm really annoyed

Are you a beach or mountain person?
We spent every summer in the hills when I was growing up, and I went on my first Himalayan Trek when I was 12 and have been addicted to the mountains ever since

Your Favourite city
Paris

What's your fragrance?
It changes with time as I do. Currently, it's Molecule 2 by Escentric Molecules

You get your work clothes from
Prada polo shirts, Gap chinos, Nike sneakers

The shoemaker you trust your sole with?
Prada

Your shaving mantra
The Kama Cedar Face wash which I use as a shaving cream. With 50 per cent aloe vera, it's the perfect shave

The gels and oils and lotions you swear by
Kama Ayurveda, it's what I do for a living, so I glow while testing them

Your favourite evening wear
Giorgio Armani and Yohji Yamamoto

What's your weekday breakfast like? And weekend?
The same - a banana-apple smoothie

In the car is it sleep or cell for you?
Both, depends on the time of day

Favourite restaurant
It's a bistro in Paris, I never remember the name

Workday lunch is
Tiffin in the office

Your workout regime
Ashtanga Yoga in the morning for an hour or so

Your ideal holiday
Wandering around the mountains in Kashmir or Ladakh

Your ideal dance music
Disco, house, trance

At parties do you like to talk turkey or make PC?
It depends on the party and the people. If am bored I just play blond

A few of your goddesses are
Parvati, Lakshmi and Saraswati

Alpha males you know
Unfortunately yes, some

Your favourite motto
Do it now

Vivek Sahni
Award-winning Graphic and Product Designer; Director, Kama Ayurveda and Vivek Sahni Design