About Us | Design Pioneers

Design pioneers

Splinterworks formed in 2009 as a collaboration between Miles Hartwell and Matt Withington.

We are instinctively driven to pursue creative opportunities that allow us to re-imagine familiar objects, enhancing the things you enjoy with ambitious, beautifully crafted, functioning sculpture.

We strive to enrich the lives of the people who live with our work, by creating pieces that enhance their environment and elevate the experience of everyday life. Our aim is to create work that is engaging, inspiring and a delight to use.

Our designs are experimental and theatrical, but the function of the piece is always paramount. We love to play visual tricks, especially where balance comes into question. Opposing dichotomies of solidity versus weightlessness, motion versus stillness, and strength versus fragility, are played out through ambitious designs in innovative materials.

Our projects are fuelled by a passion for absolute quality, technical ingenuity, artistic integrity and a solid belief in creating the most considered and exquisite work befitting of its purpose.

Learn more about us in this Pool Chasers Podcast from August 2023

Miles Hartwell Director & Co-Founder

Miles learnt a strong sense of fearlessness for making things from his father and, from a young age, he was encouraged to use tools and just ‘try’ things out. He studied Design, Technology and Business at Plymouth University, before working his way up through the ranks of several furniture design studios in both the UK and USA.

Miles heads up Sales and Business Operations.

Matt Withington Director & Co-Founder

Matt also became enthused with design at an early age. Upon discovering product design, he became excited that he could fuse artistic and practical sensibilities.

After graduating from Bournemouth University, Matt worked at a plastic injection moulding company, honing his technical skills, but missing the creative element. He found an outlet to combine his technical skills with aesthetic ingenuity, working in furniture design studios. Here, he was able to combine three-dimensional forms and sculpture with technical discipline.

Matt heads up the design team at Splinterworks.