Architectuurstudies en ontwerpen voor een lessenaar c. 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made this pencil drawing called, Architectuurstudies en ontwerpen voor een lessenaar, which is Dutch for 'Architectural studies and designs for a lectern'. I can almost see the artist at work here, you know, sketching, pausing, then sketching again—maybe they're working out an idea, testing a design, feeling their way through line and form. Look at how Cachet uses these fine lines to create these architectural forms. There’s a delicacy, a sense of precision, but also a kind of searching quality, as though he's trying to capture something elusive. And I love that the drawing feels unfinished, like a glimpse into the artist's process, revealing how ideas take shape through exploration and refinement. It makes you think about the relationship between art and design, and how architecture, like painting, can be a form of expression, a way of shaping our world and our experience of it. Ultimately, it’s about inviting us to see, think, and feel differently about the spaces we inhabit.