Jean-Michel Wilmotte is an architect, city-planner and designer, also a member of the Academy of Fine Arts since 2015. Born in 1948 in Soissons (France), he was graduated in interior design from the Camondo School (Paris) before founding his agency Wilmotte & Associés in 1975 in Paris. Nowadays the architecture practice and its design studio Wilmotte & Industries bring together 270 architects, city-planners, designers, museographer and interior designers from 25 different nationalities. From Brazil to Korea, Senegal, France and Russia, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his teams has been crisscrossing the world for more than 40 years and, wherever he goes, he places human beings, their cultures and histories at the heart of its creation. In any project, from the simpliest to the most spectacular, they develop an approach which is innovative and sustainable at the same time, with a specific attention to landscaping, lighting, materials and finishes, while always being respectful of the local and historic context of the site. Jean-Michel Wilmotte has a specific interest in developing cultural spaces as well as refurbishing and converting the architectural heritage, but throughout his career he has been developing and extending the activities and know-how of its practice to move forward the largest scale, like the Greater Moscow. Nowadays, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his team are leading more than 100 projects in 28 different countries with a major presence in the luxury, hotel and service, culture and industries sectors.
Jean-Michel Wilmotte explores with the design studio Wilmotte & Industries SAS the areas of « urban design ». From industrial design to tailor-made design, they follow by sober and strict lines, while paying a specific attention to composition, material’s choice and quality of the finishing. Thus, W & I has a strong expertise in the conception of furnitures to headquarters, tertiary buildings or hospitalities and also designs numerous lighting products, particularly with iGuzzini.
W & A, has received numerous international awards. Since 2010, the practice is one of the world’s 100 largest architectural firms according to WA100, a study published annually by the British Building Design magazine, being ranked 70 in 2018. W & I received many international awards as well, like several IF Design Awards, the French National Award for Industrial Creation awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, or the Interior Design Medal Médaille awarded by the French Academy of Architecture.