Jean-Michel Wilmotte was born in Soissons on 2 April 1948 to Robert Wilmotte (pharmacist) 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
François Mitterrand to design his private apartments in the
Elysée Palace. ==Bibliography==