Viasolferino Acquatelier

Reinventing the shopping experience for bathrooms and residential finishes.
“Don’t think bathroom, think lifestyle”.

THE CHALLENGE

How to engage a broad spectrum of clients to the huge offer of a showroom?
How to create a new retail project in the field of residential finishes and bathrooms following the need to transform the existing model of traditional showroom in a more competitive business? How to create a new brand, a new customer experience journey, reflecting the new market’s trends and i a multi-channel vision?
How to minimise the rent/construction costs/size of stores and create more engaging display areas with a longer VM lifecycle?
We break the rules and embrace a different approach to the process of sale, reinventing the showroom model, the customer experiences journey, working strategically not only on the format development, but deeply reinventing the relationship between the retailer and the supplier.

PUSH THE CHANGE

To gain a deep understanding of the real problems we worked instore, undertook mistery shopping & shadowing, set out workshops with sale consultants, manufacturer partners (marketing and sales teams), worked close to Viasolferino board, interviewed clients.
We outlined 3 set of workshops as strategic activities to develop the format, respectively

  • with manufacturers partners to create a category portfolio,
  • with sales consultants to check and empower the customer experience in showroom within the sale process, improve the services’ offer and improve sales techniques and skills
  • with manufacturers partners and sales consultants as training process in outlining a Viasolferino academy

We created a first trial showroom.

THE SOLUTION

Viasolferino focus on a number of trend-driven interior styles, launching bathroom collections every year and blending a selection of products from the manufacturers partners.
We worked simultaneously in:

  • retail design model
  • strategic category plan
  • customer experience journey between online and offline

The Retail Design Model is the work for defining the Format Showroom Design and the online concept design.
For the Format showroom Design we delivered the:

  • Concept Design of the different Showroom Models
  • Visual Merchandising Manual
  • Branded Showroom Build manual for design and fit-out showroom roll-out

The Strategic Categories Plan is the work for delivering the Viasolferino Visual Book, a tool based on a “collection of bathrooms total look”. Viasolferino Visual Book driven by the market positioning and selected consumers’ clusters, contains inspirations grouped in 5 interior styles as possible choices to display in the different showroom displays. The Visual Book deliver the contents as

  • Style Area Lab pack
  • Surfaces Moodboards pack
  • Material Set Design pack.
  • Mini Moodboard Pack.

The Customer Experience Journey Between Online And Offline.

Viasolferino RESUME

VIASOLFERINO JOURNEY AND DESIGN PACK