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Jean-Michel WILMOTTE, born in 1948 and a graduate of the Camondo School, created his Governor design office in 1975. He registered with the Order of Architects in 1993. He has worked on a number of projects in France and abroad, together with his team of seventy people of different nationalities, Government-approved architects, urbanist architects, interior architects and designers. The design officeís activities, initially centred on the creation of furniture and interior architecture, especially in the fields of museography and ìcontemporary transplantsî for old buildings, are now extended to architecture achievements. More recently, an industrial design department was created. Furthermore, the agency has been developing for a few years the concept of ìtown-based interior architectureî, a new approach to the development of urban areas concerning coverings (floors, walls and facades), plantations, lighting, urban furniture and transport.

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Designer, born in Strasbourg in 1963. Graduate of the Marseilles Art and Architecture Schools 5-year collaboration with Jean-Michel Wilmotte in the field of urban design from 1989 to 1994. He has been teaching at the Ecole SupÈrieure des Beaux-Arts of Marseilles since 1997. He has been responsible for teaching design at the Reunion School of Fine Arts since 2002. In 1996, creation of m.a. studio around the fields of the public space, lighting and urban design. The workings, forms and morphologies of the town and the public space are for the design office the federating elements around which the creation process has been developed. The reflection around lighting is addressed both via the creation of light objects and via the achievement of a number of urban scenography and event illumination projects.

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Born in 1958 and a graduate of the Kingston Polytechnic Institute of London, Matt Sindall began his professional career with stage setting for BBC television programmes. He joined the Wilmotte agency in Paris in 1991 as a Design Project Manager and introduced the use of CAD. Since 1995, he has been pursuing his activities on a freelance basis and working in parallel with Renault, Michelin and Groupe Flo as a consultant designer. Matt Sindall edits his creations at Sawava & Moroni, Milan; since 2000, he has been teaching design at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts et de Design of Reims (ESAD) and acting as Director of Research for Undergraduate Students.

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Massimiliano Fuksas was born in Rome in 1944 and was awarded an architecture diploma by the University of La Sapienza in 1969. He set up his office in Rome, Paris and Vienna in 1967, 1989 and 1993 and opened a new studio in Frankfurt in 2002. From 1998 to 2000, he was the Director of Veniceís 7th International Architecture Biennale: ìless aestheticism, more ethicsî. He has been writing for the ìLíEspressoî magazineís architecture column since January 2000. He is a speaker for several universities, such as the Paris School of Architecture, the Vienna Academy of Art and Columbia University, New York. For a number of years, he devoted particular attention to the study of urban problems in major metropolitan areas. He currently lives and works in Rome, Paris and Frankfurt. He has been working with Doriana O. Mandrelli since 1985.

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