“With this museum, Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty will be among those architects whose names we remember,” wrote Yves Saint Laurent’s late partner in business and life, Pierre Bergé , of the firm’s soon-to-open Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech. Bergé’s foreword rings especially true throughout the ensuing pages of Rizzoli’s forthcoming Studio KO , a monograph dedicated to the Paris-based firm’s 18 years of practice in France, Morocco, England, and beyond. The book, whose large-format photographs bear first-hand witness to the firm’s singular ability to create a modern style that feels both sumptuous and minimalist, launches October 11, just in advance of the museum's opening, later this month. A particularly special part of the book is its sweeping look into Studio KO ’s residential oeuvre, a collection of materially sophisticated homes nestled into idyllic landscapes around the world.

Here, a sneak peak into the forthcoming book.

The exterior of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, which will open to the public on October 19.

A detail of the museum’s exterior, whose facade is built from terracotta bricks made locally in in ovens powered by olive waste.

The dining room of a villa in Ourika, Morocco, designed by the firm in 2013.

A living area in the same villa, where modernist elements like this hanging chair are merged with traditional Berber craftsmanship, like the rug pictured here.

A fireplace in the Ourika villa.

A view of the Atlas Mountains, framed by an infinity pool at a villa in Tagadert, Morocco, designed by Studio KO in 2009.

The living area in the Tagadert villa, which was designed to maximize views of the surrounding mountain vistas.

Nestled in the Luberon region of France is Studio KO’s Bonnieux villa, whose concrete form exists in powerful juxtaposition with the region’s lush environs.

Another view of the Bonnieux villa’s living area.