Ontwerp voor een stoelzitting c. 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet sketched this design for a chair seat, a seat as in, you park your butt there and chill. The paper has that lovely, warm tone of old sketchbooks, and the graphite lines are delicate, almost tentative, like he's feeling his way through the idea. You can see him working out the shape, erasing, adjusting, trying to get it just right. It's like watching his thought process unfold on the page. I bet he was thinking about comfort, about how the chair would feel to sit in. And also, of course, about aesthetics - how the chair would look in a room, the interplay of lines and volumes. There’s something so intimate about seeing an artist’s process like this, the raw, unedited workings of their mind. It makes you feel like you’re right there with them, sharing in the creative act.