Puces Lovers: Karl Fournier & Olivier Marty
How the Paris Flea Market inspires those who love it
Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty, founders of Studio KO, belong to a generation of architects for whom the Puces de Saint-Ouen are not a weekend diversion but a working landscape. Long before Studio KO became synonymous with tactile, layered interiors and architecture rooted in place, the flea market was already shaping their eye. For them, the Puces are less about nostalgia than about movement – across time, styles, and uses – a living archive where objects are encountered and reactivated. Many of these finds begin a second life in their online shop and gallery, L’Oeil de KO, a manifesto of their instinctive taste. In this conversation, they reflect on how hunting, combining and living with objects informs their practice, and why the flea market remains one of the last truly eclectic territories in contemporary design.
