Ontwerp voor een stoel c. 1934s

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet sketched this design for a chair using graphite on paper. I love seeing this kind of thing, you know, a drawing, a plan, a diagram for something that’s about to exist. I think of the making, the building, all the messy stuff that goes into producing furniture. It makes me think of the Bauhaus, and other artists and architects in the early 20th century, like Gerrit Rietveld, who also made paintings. They all had this thing in common: combining the fine and applied arts, the beautiful and the useful. What was it like for him to put pencil to paper and imagine this chair? What did he sit on when he was designing this? That simple line carries so much potential. I can imagine someone making the chair based on these measurements, I can see how it could be tweaked, transformed, how it fits into the world, and how the world fits it.