Much2C Lamp Collection
Eindhoven, 2008–2015

‘every little thing has a soul’

It begins, as many designs do, at a worktable scattered with fragments. Discarded bottle caps, faded plastic bowls, objects once held, used and forgotten. In an abandoned school, Nico Schilders and Roger Stemkens create a huge studio. They look at these remnants not as waste, but as designs with a purpose.

Together, they form Much2C, a collaborative design label with a shared belief, that every little thing has a soul.

The Much2C Lamp Collection emerges from this philosophy. At first glance, the lights shimmer with playful familiarity, bright plastics, recognizable shapes, a kind of everyday nostalgia. But step closer, and discover the message behind. To Chop Suey each piece stands as an ode to early pioneers of environmental awareness, and to the urgent reality of the growing plastic soup drifting through our oceans.

The collection does not accuse, it asks for a pause and reconsideration. That humble bottle cap, that overlooked plastic container, each begins as a sketch, an idea carefully shaped at a drawing table.

Now, these light objects travel. Exhibited at Água que Mira, they shine in Portugal for the first time, not just as design artifacts, but as storytellers.