Jean-Michel Léon Bernard Wilmotte (; born 2 April 1948) is a French architect, urbanist and designer.
Biography Jean-Michel Wilmotte was born in Soissons, Aisne in 1948 to pharmacist Robert Wilmotte and Suzanne Léonard.Who's Who in France, édition 2015, p. 2287. He attended secondary school at the Soisson lycée and the Jean-de-La-Fontaine lycée in Château-Thierry. He studied interior design at the Camondo school of interior design in Paris. Two years after graduating, he founded his own agency in Paris in 1975. In 1982 he was commissioned by President François Mitterrand to design his refurbished private apartments in the Élysée Palace.
He was elected to the Académie d'architecture in 2001, and to the Académie des beaux-arts in 2015.
Honours Officer of the Legion of Honour (2022) Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite (1994) Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1992) Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (1986)
Bibliography Ceci n'est pas un parc, entretien avec Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Éditions Libel, Lyon (France), 2010 Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Architecture – Ecriture, Dane McDowell, Éditions Aubanel, Paris (France), 2009 Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Architectures à l'oeuvre, François Lamarre, Pascal Tournaire, Stéphane Paoli, Éditions Le Moniteur, Paris (France), 2008 Wilmotte, l'instinct architecte, Jean Grisoni, Jean-Baptiste Loubeyre, Éditions Le Passage, Paris (France), 2005 Architecture intérieure des villes, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Paul Virilio, Éditions du Moniteur, Paris (France), 1999 Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Francis Rambert, Éditions du Regard, Paris (France), 1996 Réalisations et projets, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Éditions du Moniteur, Paris (France), 1993 Wilmotte, Jean-Louis Pradel, Éditions Electa Moniteur, Paris (France), 1988
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Wilmotte & Associés Architectes