Ontwerpen voor een lampenkap en -voet c. 1928

This is a page of studies by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, designs for a lampshade and base. You know, sometimes the best part of looking at art is seeing the artist's hand, and here, the sketchiness is the whole thing. Cachet’s lines are tentative, searching – look at the way he re-draws the curves on the lamp base, building up the form through repetition. It’s about the process, the thinking-through-drawing, not about a slick, finished product. There’s a vulnerability in that openness. The lampshade at the top right – with its little circles and curlicues – is especially nice. It feels like he’s doodling, playing with ideas, seeing what might emerge. It reminds me a little of Gustav Klimt’s sketches – that same sense of searching for the perfect form. Art, like life, is a conversation, an ongoing process of learning and discovery. It's not always about having the answers but about asking the right questions.