Schoorsteen met beschilderde plaquettes, onderdeel van een betimmering uit het huis van Dentz van Schaick c. 1900 - 1905

Here’s a chimney piece with painted panels, part of the paneling from the house of Dentz van Schaick, by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. The texture of the wood is so present. You can almost feel the grain. It's like the bones of the structure are showing, right? And the frame around it… it's not just a border, but like a little dance, a repetition of geometric forms that make you wonder how it was carved. I love when art wears its process on its sleeve like that. I'm drawn to the relationship between the raw and the refined. The wood isn’t trying to hide what it is, but then there’s this impulse to decorate, to add another layer of meaning. Makes you think about how we live with our spaces, right? How we make them our own. Think about someone like Gustav Klimt, another artist who just loved embellishment! It makes you realize art is an ongoing conversation, an echo through time.