Details van meubilair en verlichting voor een eetzaal c. 1905 - 1910

This sketch of furniture and lighting details for a dining room was made by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet. It’s essentially a page from an artist’s notebook, a jumble of ideas and calculations. I can imagine Cachet, pen in hand, rapidly jotting down these ideas, trying to get them out of his head and onto paper. He’s thinking about form and function simultaneously. He must have been imagining the look and feel of a room, the weight of the chairs, and the glow of the light. The thing that strikes me is the way the artist thinks through drawing, figuring out how things fit together, imagining things into being. It reminds me of my own process as a painter, how a painting comes into being, shifting and emerging through trial, error, and intuition. Artists are in an ongoing conversation, inspiring each other’s creativity across time.