Ontwerp voor een meubel 1908

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this furniture design using graphite on paper. The work is not just an image of the proposed design, but also an insight into Cachet’s production process. The clean lines and precise measurements are reminiscent of a craftsman's detailed workshop drawings. It's less concerned with pure aesthetics and more focused on functional construction and practicality. The choice of graphite is significant. It’s an easily accessible material, widely used for sketching and preliminary designs, suggesting that this drawing was an early step in the design process. Cachet probably made his living off designing things for industrial production. It shows his understanding of how the artistic and the practical can come together, and it also emphasizes the importance of the initial planning stages in bringing functional design to life. This drawing gives us a peek behind the curtain, revealing the nuts and bolts of how design, and therefore material culture, actually comes into being.