Ontwerpen voor een stoel c. 1928

This is Carel Adolph Lion Cachet's "Ontwerpen voor een stoel", a design for a chair made without a known date, but certainly with graphite on paper. It's all about the bare bones, you know? A sketch is where ideas take their first, wobbly steps. Look at these lines, so casual, but confident. Cachet isn't trying to sell you a chair, he's thinking out loud about structure and form. It's like a diagram of a thought. The scribbled notes, measurements… it’s all part of the same process. The texture of the paper adds a layer of intimacy. You can almost feel the give of the page under his hand. This reminds me of those quick drawings by Van Gogh, where you see him working it out. These are both artists thinking with a pencil. It's less about the final product, and more about how ideas are born, through experimentation and play.