Jean-Michel Wilmotte
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| Born | Jean-Michel Léon Bernard Wilmotte 2 April 1948 (age 78) Soissons, France |
| Alma mater | École Camondo |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Works | Allianz Riviera, Nice (2013) Holy Trinity Cathedral and the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center, Paris (2016) |
Jean-Michel Léon Bernard Wilmotte (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃miʃɛl wilmɔt]; born 2 April 1948) is a French architect, urbanist and designer.
Biography
[edit]Jean-Michel Wilmotte was born in Soissons, Aisne in 1948 to pharmacist Robert Wilmotte and Suzanne Léonard.[1] 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.[2]
He was elected to the Académie d'architecture in 2001, and to the Académie des beaux-arts in 2015.[3]
Honours
[edit]- Officer of the Legion of Honour (2022)[4]
- Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite (1994)[5]
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1992)
- Knight of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (1986)
Bibliography
[edit]- Ceci n'est pas un parc, entretien avec Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Éditions Libel, Lyon (France), 2010 ISBN 9782917659083
- Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Architecture – Ecriture, Dane McDowell, Éditions Aubanel, Paris (France), 2009 ISBN 9782700606898
- Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Architectures à l'oeuvre, François Lamarre, Pascal Tournaire, Stéphane Paoli, Éditions Le Moniteur, Paris (France), 2008 ISBN 9782281194012
- Wilmotte, l'instinct architecte, Jean Grisoni, Jean-Baptiste Loubeyre, Éditions Le Passage, Paris (France), 2005 ISBN 2847420819
- Architecture intérieure des villes, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Paul Virilio, Éditions du Moniteur, Paris (France), 1999 ISBN 2281191044
- Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Francis Rambert, Éditions du Regard, Paris (France), 1996 ISBN 2841050262
- Réalisations et projets, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Éditions du Moniteur, Paris (France), 1993 ISBN 2281190706
- Wilmotte, Jean-Louis Pradel, Éditions Electa Moniteur, Paris (France), 1988 ISBN 286653056X
References
[edit]- ^ Who's Who in France, édition 2015, p. 2287.
- ^ Pierre Lesieur; Eloïse Trouvat (9 April 2022). "A l'Elysée, à chaque président son style !". archive.wikiwix.com (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Qui sommes-nous". www.wilmotte.com (in French).
- ^ "Décret du 13 juillet 2022 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur". Légifrance (in French).
- ^ "Décret du 14 mai 1994 portant promotion et nomination". Légifrance (in French).
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean-Michel Wilmotte.
- Wilmotte & Associés Architectes
- "Biography Jean-Michel WILMOTT". 23 December 2010. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- "Wilmotte & Associés S.A. : Jean-Michel Wilmotte". Paris: Wilmotte et Associés SA d'Architecture. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
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- Living people
- People from Soissons
- 20th-century French architects
- 21st-century French architects
- Stadium architects
- Architects of cathedrals
- Members of the Académie d'architecture
- Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
- People associated with the Louvre
- École Camondo alumni
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- French recipients of the Legion of Honour
- Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques