Our Newsletter
A Weekly Newsletter by Viv & Ami
We began this labour of love, as a way to share with our friends all the ways in which we revel in life’s little pleasures - cooking, art, music, design - away from the doom-scrolling of gloomy headlines.Alongside our curated list from the internet of our favourite things, we also share our experience of being female entrepreneurs in India; the highs and pitfalls, challenges and wins and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom we’ve learned as we’ve fumbled through this journey.It's been a month of cyclones, heat waves, and all the weather machinations of ever looming climate change doom: we hope you are safe and comfortable, reading this in air-conditioned environs. The month has been quite action-packed for us over...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
19th
June
2023
We're Viv and Ami, co-founders of The Wishing Chair Design studio and your weekly curators of internet ephemera and interesting stuff we like to share here in hopes that it brings a little joy to your day. Honestly, we thought...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
5th
May
2023
We're Viv and Ami, co-founders of The Wishing Chair Design studio and your weekly curators of internet ephemera and interesting stuff we like to share here in hopes that it brings a little joy to your day. Hey there you...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
5th
May
2023
The past couple of years seems to have been a blur of friend’s celebrating their big 4-0 and our respective parents celebrating their milestone 7-0. And as our younger friends, grudgingly - or kicking and screamingly, enter their 4th decade,...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
31st
August
2022
There are only 50 unique words in the children’s book Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss wrote the book after his publisher bet him $50 in 1960 that he couldn’t write an entire book with less than 50 unique words...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
31st
August
2022
Why do we know so many people who spend their lives doing things they don't like to do, buying things that bring them no lasting joy, and working hard at goals that offer no real fulfillment? We have all experienced...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
1st
August
2022
About five years after launching, The Wishing Chair was in expansion mode. In addition to our three outlets, we wanted to open brick-and-mortar stores in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. But most of our earnings were being plowed back into developing...
The Delights of Distraction
By Avneet Mann
26th
July
2022
This week we’ve been trying to conjure up optimism to keep working on the things we care about and problem-solving on some of the biz woes. So, we're going to take a momentary break from the navel-gazing self-pity that we’ve...
The Delights of Distraction
By Viv & Ami
26th
July
2022