Ontwerp voor een zilveren serveerblad 1874 - 1932

This is Mathieu Lauweriks’ design for a silver serving dish, sketched on graph paper in 1914. Graph paper, right? A tool for planning, measuring, getting it right. But what I love is how Lauweriks coaxes a kind of organic freedom from this rigid grid! See how the curves of the dish feel both precise and totally sensual? Like a shell, or a perfectly plump kidney bean? Maybe Lauweriks was thinking about growth, nature’s own rule-based system. I can imagine him, hunched over his desk, pencil in hand, trying to find the sweet spot, the perfect ratio. It's not just about function, but how the object might feel in your hands, the pleasure it could bring. I feel like this drawing, this beautiful, quirky design, is part of a long conversation about art, design, and how we shape the world around us.