Our story
We built the thing that did not exist.
Amaya Chairs is a husband-and-wife team. We make one thing — ceremony furniture for the Maiyan — and we make it ourselves, in the UK.
The ceremony everyone remembers, and nobody had designed for.
The Maiyan — the Vatna in some families, the Haldi or the Pithi in others — brings everyone together to press turmeric paste onto the bride or groom in the days before the wedding. It is warm, hands-on and completely unguarded, and it is photographed more than almost anything else in the week.
We kept noticing the same thing. The wedding industry had moved on — the stages, the florals, the film crews, all of it — and the Maiyan had been left behind, still happening on a low peeri or whatever chair was nearest.
So we started designing. Trials, prototypes, a great deal of sanding and a lot of conversations with families about what actually happens during the ceremony: who sits where, who kneels, where the tray ends up, who holds the chunni and for how long.
What came out of it was the world’s first Maiyan Suite — a head chair with real support, side chairs so family are not on the floor, a tray table at the right height, and every ceremony piece made to match the suite it belongs to.
Tradition deserves more than an afterthought.
Everything we make starts from that. Not to modernise the ceremony, and not to make it grander than it is — just to give it furniture worthy of what it means.
Made in the UK
Everything happens under one roof.
Every Amaya Chairs suite is handcrafted at Amaya Chairs HQ. Frames are cut and shaped here, upholstery is worked here, and the complete set — chairs, tray table, Sagan tray, chunni sticks, Phatti and board — is checked here before it is loaded.
Because we build them, we can also change them. Bespoke suites are possible depending on the design, the time available and what we can source, which is why those conversations need to start early.
Where they end up
Driveways, marquees, front rooms, football pitches.
We deliver across most of the UK — free within 30 miles, then 50p per mile. These are all real mornings.
