Originally from Gironde, Sébastien grew up between Saint-Émilion and the Bassin d’Arcachon. After studying Japanese at Bordeaux University, he moved to Osaka for a year, where he put his passion for wine to good use by working for a wine merchant friend. Coming from a family of winegrowers, the link was made: Bordeaux wines were being exported all over the world, and he wanted to travel. On the strength of this first experience in Japan, he returned a few years later, this time to live there, where he settled for eight years.

Guided by encounters and opportunities, he travelled to some forty countries, discovering emblematic places. His travels were punctuated by the great museums and modern architecture he loved: Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim, MAM and Pompidou, but also all the classics: Prado, Rijksmuseum, Orsay… And if he had to choose just one, it would be the Benesse Museum and all the sites on Japan’s Naoshima and Teshima islands.

An unconditional fan of Tadao Ando and the Bauhaus, which he discovered on a visit to the museum in Berlin, he travelled to Tel Aviv just to see their work. From architecture to painting and photography, art in the broadest sense of the term interests this inquisitive mind.

This aesthete of a thousand lives decided to return to France when his son was born, and settled in Arcachon, where he has lived since 2022. His interest in the basin’s specific architectural heritage naturally led him to ARCHIK, where he joins the team as a negotiator and assists you with your projects.