Ontwerpen voor een tafel 1874 - 1945

This is ‘Ontwerpen voor een tafel’ (Designs for a table) by Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, drawn with pen and ink. I find it hard to imagine Cachet making this because it's a design for something functional! Did he think of his design as art? Was he commissioned to make a certain kind of table? The flat darkness of the tabletop is appealing – practical, but also kind of dreamy, like a minimalist painting by Ellsworth Kelly. And what about the perspective? Is it right? Does it matter? The other smaller drawing gives us more information – it's kind of you, Carel, to add it. And I see wheels... It's like a little carriage table! When I make art I am also working towards a functional thing in the world... maybe for someone to think or see or feel.