Creators of the Studio KO, architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty have disseminated their projects in Europe, Morocco, the confines of Africa or the Americas for the past ten years. The creative tandem showcases a spirit of eclectic styles alongside an idiosyncratic process, developing very early on an art of narration in which space, light and materials are the defining elements. Public spaces, private residences, contemporary houses enshrined in nature, each project is an opportunity to play around, to reveal.
No blank page, but a guiding thread the architects follow to better underline the singularity of a project and the unique way it will be experienced or inhabited. Whether it is a Parisian bistro or a monolith on a hill, the context is the template. Archeology, environment, topography, each limitation of the site is an element of the creative equation of an architecture. Spirit of the spaces, a storyline for a future tale, understanding and enhancing the visions of the client, it is the same tailored poetry that invades all the interiors created.
Melodic contrasts, anagrams, rhymes or riddles, Studio KO plays with materials like one plays with words, reinventing the senses they stimulate and the way they are perceived. Here, a varnished surface is adorned with a matte finish. There, the multicolored becomes a monochrome. Blacks are solarized, fire sketches precious shadows, fabrics proudly sport the richness of their underside. Startling results, skillfully balanced with the mastery of traditional know-how, educated scantiness and subdued luxury. The link between these extremities of the spectrum is a serene rapport with history. Knowing how to find the resurgences of the past in order to misappropriate them, to steer away from them is, for Studio KO, the definition of modernity
