Jean-Michel Wilmotte

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. 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)