Welcoming Matt Podesta, Furniture and Kitchens Designer

We’re chuffed to be welcoming the very talented Matt Podesta into the Teer & Co fold of Designer Makers.

Matt joins us to offer his skills as an experienced designer of handcrafted furniture that we can have made by our skilled makers to support our management of bespoke commission work for interior designers, architects and private clients.

Matt is an award-winning designer of contemporary and classic free-standing and fitted domestic furniture and kitchens. He believes a strong sense of proportion and the right materials go hand-in-hand. His passion for architectural design, shapes, structures and materials – both classical and contemporary – is a huge influence on his work. 

With a BA (Hons) in Industrial Design and Manufacture (Furniture) Matt has worked for some of the industry’s leading furniture companies including Habitat, Tom Dixon, Luke Hughes, Smallbone and Mark Wilkinson. Matt ran an award-winning consultancy from 2002 to 2018 and designs for private clients as well as being Co-Founder and Creative Director of Huckleberry which offers fitted and freestanding kitchens and furniture (images below) inspired by Georgian sculleries and pantries.  

Here are just a few examples of his work which can all be customised if required. 

Awards include Kitchen Design of the Year 2015, Kitchen Designer of the Year 2012 and 2015 (finalist 2014), shortlisted for the Homes & Gardens Kitchen Designer of the Year 2014.

As a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, Matt sits on the Bespoke Guild Mark committee that awards the UK’s finest furniture makers. Matt has mentored students and recent graduates on the Committee for Young Designers. Matt often talks on furniture design and helped establish the UK’s first ever degree course in Kitchen Design.

If you have any questions about Matt’s work, or would like to discuss a bespoke project of your own, then please call us on 07957 627052 or send us an email to simon@simonteer.com.