MINIATURE COLLEGE CHAIRS (ACAC-M, ATCC-M)

Tiny Chairs for Universities, Big Business, and Productive Philanthropy.  Sometimes Less Is More.   Amish Made in Ohio!

Alumni Chairs works closely with Business, Development, Fundraising, and Philanthropy Professionals to provide special Miniature College Chairs that are a great way to honor special individuals and reward loyalty.  We build full-size, custom chairs to be presented to donors of major gifts and gifts for board members.  For our clients who purchase our full size unoversity chairs, we also make Miniature Chairs that replicate their full-size college chairs.

We build Miniature College Chairs as Donor Appreciation Gifts for donors who prefer Smaller but Equally Elegant Chairs that are also more economical.  Not every benefactor, client, retiree, or board member will want a large college chair.  Some individuals will prefer something that fits on an office desk or shelf in the home.   Many donors prefer smaller gifts because they want their favorite organization or charity to be careful stewards of their essential funds.

If your development department, advancement department, stewardship personnel, or your business seek unique gift with which to reward donors, persuade major contributors to donate, or compliment a customer, we will work with you to design attractive chairs that only your organization can provide.  Miniature College Chairs are an excellent means of honoring principal donors and donors who are mindful of careful stewardship and likely to decline a gift of higher cost.  Also, employees and alumni of your business will appreciate a memento of your company or nonprofit organiation.

We produce miniature college chairs for university advancement, development, and alumni offices.  Some universities have approached us in search of miniature college chairs to facilitate fundraising recognition and stewardship.  Businesses have requested our Mini Chairs for the purpose of fostering loyalty and as retirement gifts for employees.  Because they may know donors and prospective donors whose contributions may not justify the expense of a full-size university chair or the donors may prefer less valuable gifts, these offices have decided to make available small replica college chairs that can be displayed on desks and shelves in homes and offices.  Also, some individuals of high net worth may not wish to receive full-size alumni chair or they may prefer that their favorite charity conserve donor dollars and avoid premium items such as full-size college chairs, preferring that their charity be a conservative steward of donor funds.

We build Two Models of Miniature Chairs with Attractive Bases:   exact replicas of our  Affinity Classic Alumni Chair (ACAC-M, above, left) and our Affinity Traditional Captain’s Chair (ATCC-M, above, right) each in three heights:  four-inches, five-inches, and six-inches – mini-chairs complete with colorful, exact-replica logos.   Currently we offer both models in an elegant black lacquer finish.  Other attractive materials and finishes are available, at additional cost.

Our most popular Miniature Chair Base is made of Brown Maple and stained with a dark brown stain.  We offer elegant bases in other wood species (Cherry is popular.) and in stone.  We have recently created miniature-chair bases of New Hampshire Granite for Women of Dartmouth, in Hanover, New Hampshire and White Marble Bases for the Boston University Questrom School of Business and the Boston University School of Law.

Our Miniature College Chairs and Miniature Chair Bases are all made at our Headquarters in Montrose, Colorado.

For more information about miniature chairs and bases for Retirement Gifts for Employees, Gifts for Board members, Donor Appreciation Gifts, Donor Awards, Donor Award Gifts, and Stewardship in general, please phone us at 866.748.2248.

 

“For our new endowed chair donors, we are presenting them with a miniature chair to recognize their transformational generosity”

 

We will design custom miniature chairs according to your needs, and costs will vary with size, chair material, pedestal material, finish, complexity, and the client’s desired delivery time frame.  As is the case of our full-size chairs, our miniature chairs are Made in The United States.

Because Miniature College Chairs are four, five, or six inches in height, they are difficult to make and finish.  In truth, they are labor intensive and not inexpensive.  The majority of the cost is due to the painstaking, manual finishing effort including (1) the installation of Miniature Chair Logos 9-14mm in height and (2) painting tiny hand stripes with brush by hand.  Before logo installation and hand-striping, Mini-Chairs are finished with the same lacquering process as our full-size chairs.

We offer a choice of chairs attached to the base or unattached from the base – loose to be picked up and admired by the recipient.  Unattached chairs are our most popular, but some institutions prefer the chair attached to the base with adhesive for one, solid unit. If you do not specify, our default option is unattached.   We encourage you to phone us at 866.748.2230 to discuss the option of attachment to the base.

Clear, acrylic cases or covers are available for our miniature chairs.   Although  these covers add style the chairs, there are real benefits to the clear glass-like cases.   Without a cover, a black chair will collect and readily show dust, and. in some environments, wiping the dust from the chair will scratch the chair’s fine finish.  Secondly, a case may deter a passer by from picking up the chair, dropping it, and damaging it.  Covers or cases can have a plastic base that protects a chair’s wooden base, poisitioned under the wooden base.   Otherwise, we can simply fit a case over and snugly around the chairs wooden base so that the acrylic case rests on the table or shelf on which the chair’s wooden base rests.

All of our Miniature Chairs – as our full-size chairs – are made in the United States.  All of our logo art is created in the United States.  We obtain many granites and marbles from the U.S.  Some exotic granites may be sourced overseas.

Note:   We ask clients to plan in advance of special events and allow adequate time for us to produce these miniature chairs.  The finishing process for the chairs, alone, involves 14 arduous steps to create a perfect miniature logo (or institutional seal) and a perfect finish.  To create one chair, we ask clients to allow 4-6 weeks for the production process.  An order of multiple chairs would increase the elapsed time required to complete the corder.  For large orders, we sometimes make progress shipments as we complete the order.  We can ship the first chairs of a large order as the chairs become available for shipping.  Please phone us to discuss production and delivery estimates at 866.748.2230.

For more information about miniature chairs and bases for Retirement Gifts for Employees, Donor Appreciation Gifts, Donor Awards, Donor Award Gifts, and Stewardship in general, please phone us at 866.748.2248.

Pricing & Reviews of Our Miniature College Chairs