JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE (BORN 1948) Élysée, designed circa [1983], originally for the bedroom of the President of the French Republic at the Palais de l'Élysée. Pair of inverted U-shaped stools with curved seats. Black-stained oak veneer. Height: 40cm - Length: 60cm - Depth: 60cm Provenance: Private collection, Brussels: Private collection, Brussels. Bibliography: - Jean-Louis Pradel - Wilmotte - Éditions Electra Moniteur, Paris, 1988. Identical models reproduced on pages 30-31 (detail) and 64. - Pierre Kjellberg - Le mobilier du XXe siècle, dictionnaire des créateurs - Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris 1994. identical model reproduced on page 668. - Francis Rambert - Jean-Michel Wilmotte - Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1996.identical models reproduced on pages 198 and 243. - Dane McDowell - Jean-Michel Wilmotte: architecture, écritures - Éditions Aubanel, Paris, 2009.identical model reproduced on page 54. - Anne Bony - Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Design, Catalogue raisonné 1974-2023 - Éditions Skira, Paris, 2023.identical models reproduced on pages 84, 118-119, 154, 484 and 498.