After studying drawing and the arts at the prestigious École Boulle (Paris), he met Pierre Grisot at the age of 17, in the department of bronze mounts, and became his pupil. For eight years, he studied with him composition and painting, drawings from live models, still life, and landscape (in the south of France and in Savoy). He had a career as an interior designer, working for the famous Jansen company in Paris, between 1955 and 1961, before setting up his own company Dekoras. He creates and produces furniture and carpet patterns that he sells in most European capitals, as well as in the Middle East. He continued painting throughout these years, in the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts in the City of Paris, and in other workshops. Some of his works are part of the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.