An interior architect and designer, he founded the agency Jam in London in 1994 in partnership with two designers, with whom he is co-director. The agency's client base includes Sony, Philips and Whirpool, designing products and developing, through its creations, a mode of design centred on the reclamation of industrial materials.
In 1999, Matthieu Paillard left Jam to found his own agency.
He is now freelance consultant for Absolut Vodka, Eurolounge, Calvin Klein, Habitat and Thierry Mugler, and lectured in design at the ESAD, Reims between 1999 and 2000.