Produced in partnership with Abode Living.

As design week unfolded across Milan’s courtyards, galleries, and showrooms, Abode Living creative director Amelia Marasco Adair and her team took in the streetscape with a discerning eye—seeking not just inspiration, but connection. The Melbourne-based luxury textile company has long maintained a collaborative partnership with Italian textile mill Kohro, and this year’s visit to Italy reaffirmed the strength of that global thread.

“Everywhere I turned, there was evidence of outdoor living being treated with the same reverence as indoor spaces,” Marasco Adair says. “Oversized, comfortable cushions, boucle in every imaginable shade, and richly coloured marbles—especially deep burgundy and green—set the tone.” These tactile and tonal cues will shape Abode Living’s new winter collection, with dual-sided boucle throws, new yarns, and a deeper exploration of textural luxury.

At the Kohro showroom in Brera—and at the Bergamo mill forty minutes outside the city centre—Marasco Adair and her team viewed new textile collections and watched the earliest stages of yarn spinning and loom weaving. “Seeing our fabrics begin their journey in Italy, and knowing they’ll be finished in our Melbourne factory to suit the exact dimensions of a designer’s project—it really reinforces what makes our process so unique,” she says.