Dan Cramer’s award-winning Molti chairs, developed for the Gunlocke Company, exemplify an archetypal design that can lend itself to production in hundreds of finish and detail variations. Cramer is a graduate of the Cranbrook Academy, long an incubator of some of the best industrial design; he also teaches furniture design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His Molti in all its many variations is the best-selling chair in Gunlocke’s long history as a manufacturer of high-end contract furniture. Among other things, the chairs can be stacked for storage, and they can be ganged together in rows. Cramer’s design makes intelligent use of wood’s warmth and steel’s strength, each to its best advantage. The arm’s graceful form is more complex than it might seem, its cross-section subtly changing as it flows in smooth transition to the front leg of tubular steel. Illustrating the design’s adaptability, a different feeling has been imparted to each chair just by varying the shape and pattern of the cutouts in the backs.

— From Glenn Gordon's essay, Sculpture Designed to be Used.