Ontwerpen voor hanglampen c. 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made these hanging lamp designs with graphite. There’s something incredibly intimate about seeing an artist's process laid bare. Here, the graphite lines are light, exploratory. You can almost feel Cachet's hand moving across the page, figuring out shapes and structures. It’s less about a finished product and more about the act of imagining. Look at the variations in the designs, that central lamp: it's like a playful experiment in geometry and light, those quick, repeated lines build up to something quite elaborate, yet it all feels so immediate. It reminds me a bit of the spatial investigations in some of Piranesi's architectural drawings. In both, there's this sense of art being a conversation, a back-and-forth between the idea and the making, always open to possibility.