Trained at the National School of Arts and Textile Industries (ENSAIT), specialising in architecture and decoration, it was after his military service that he joined his former teacher, architect Gérard Doisy, at his agency; there he stayed for thirteen years. He would be his only student. In 1988, he met Francis Holder, who entrusted him with the management of a design office within the Paul group. To date, he has to his credit plans for 850 Paul bakeries, a hundred Ladurée stores and numerous real estate and industrial projects.