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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
