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Air-Gapped Infrastructure Case Study

Vivere Luxury: Building a High-Performance Storefront for Luxury Furniture Retail 

Industry Luxury Retail, Furniture & Home Décor, E-Commerce
Solution Custom Storefront Design & Development, Advanced Product Customization, SEO, Client Enablement
Partner Shopify (Kalles Theme)

Air-Gapped Infrastructure Case Study

Vivere Luxury is a premium furniture retailer specializing in handcrafted, customizable furnishings from internationally recognized brands and artisan manufacturers.

With physical showrooms in California and Virginia alongside a growing e-commerce presence, Vivere combines luxury design with personalized customer experiences, offering made-to-order products across a wide range of materials, finishes, fabrics, and configurations.

To support its digital growth, Vivere required a modern e-commerce platform capable of showcasing highly configurable furniture products while maintaining the premium look and feel expected of a luxury brand. The solution needed to accommodate complex product customization, differentiated fulfillment models for standard and Open Box inventory, scalable content management, and an intuitive administration experience that would allow the internal team to independently manage products, content, and future catalog expansion.

Business Requirements and Challenges 

DPL began by reviewing the client’s existing, separately branded Magento site and identifying the pages and features required for the new Vivere Luxury storefront. With the goal to keep Vivere a distinct brand with a completely different feel, the team set out to address the following requirements and challenges:

1. Building a Distinct New Brand from a Defined Feature List
DPL reviewed the client’s existing, separately branded Magento site and identified the pages and features required for Vivere, including the ability to upload 3D product models for effective product visualization. The team’s approach was to finalize the Kalles theme as the technical foundation first, then design Vivere’s new visual identity on top of it.

2. Expanding Custom Options Beyond Original Scope
The original scope called for basic custom options on select products. As development progressed, it became clear how extensive Vivere’s configurable furniture catalog actually was, with fabric, finish, hardware, and other selections combining into far more variations than a standard product listing. Shopify natively limits every product to three option types and 100 total variant combinations, which was not enough once the real scope of configuration became clear.

3. Enforcing Purchase Rules for a New Open Box Collection
Vivere wished to introduce an Open Box collection of previously opened, non-new inventory with its own delivery timelines, sold alongside standard new stock. Once approved, this required a business rule preventing customers from combining Open Box items with standard items in the same cart.

4. Shipping That Reflects Size, Weight, and Origin
Vivere’s furniture varies widely in size and weight, and fulfillment could originate from more than one location depending on whether an item was standard inventory or a locally available floor model suited to regional courier delivery. The client wanted shipping costs at checkout to reflect these differences accurately, without upgrading to the Advanced Shopify plan, the tier required to unlock third-party carrier-calculated shipping rates.

5. Client Enablement for Ongoing Content Management
Vivere’s team needed the ability to independently add and update product data and adjust page designs without ongoing developer involvement, requiring both an initial content build-out and clear internal training on the tools available in the theme.

Business Impact and Considerations 

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1. Shopify Theme Architecture & Custom Design System

  • Kalles Shopify theme as the foundation for responsive layouts and built-in e-commerce functionality
  • Native theme sections and theme builder used to accelerate development and content management
  • Custom visual design system implemented across reusable templates and components
  • Foundation-first design validation using functional templates to reduce implementation risk
  • Theme customization balancing bespoke branding with maintainable Shopify architecture

2. Configurable Product Architecture

  • Shopify metafields for structured non-priced product configuration data
  • Third-party product options app supporting unlimited configurable attributes and dynamic pricing
  • Price-adjustment logic integrated across configurable product selections
  • Cart pricing validation to ensure accurate line-item and order-total calculations
  • Vendor-supported integration for closed-source Shopify app customization

3. Structured Content Architecture with Metaobjects

  • Shopify Metaobjects for centralized showroom and location content management
  • Reusable content models for addresses, business hours, and contact information
  • Dynamic location page templates driven by structured content
  • Scalable content architecture supporting future showroom expansion without template duplication

4. Custom Cart & Fulfillment Logic

  • Custom cart validation preventing incompatible Open Box and standard inventory purchases
  • Purchase-rule enforcement integrated with dynamic product options workflows
  • Custom fulfillment logic aligned with Vivere’s inventory management model
  • Shipping rule enforcement based on inventory type and fulfillment source

5. Shipping & Fulfillment Architecture

  • Native Shopify shipping profiles organized by product size, weight class, and fulfillment origin
  • Regional shipping rules for locally fulfilled floor-model inventory
  • Separate shipping configuration for Open Box and standard product catalogs
  • Native Shopify shipping architecture selected over dimensional-rate applications
  • Client-managed shipping profile assignment process for ongoing catalog maintenance

6. 3D & Augmented Reality Product Experience

  • Native Shopify 3D model and augmented reality (AR) capabilities enabled
  • Product templates configured to support GLB and USDZ asset formats
  • AR-ready product architecture allowing future model uploads without redevelopment
  • Platform prepared for scalable immersive product visualization

7. Technical SEO Foundation
SEO metadata configuration including titles, descriptions, and Open Graph tags

  • Canonical URL strategy supporting search engine indexing
  • Structured collection hierarchy and URL architecture for improved discoverability

Search-optimized Shopify site foundation aligned with platform best practices

8. Catalog Curation & Client Enablement

  • Initial product catalog population supporting launch readiness
  • Standardized product data structure for scalable catalog management
  • Client training materials covering catalog administration and page management
  • Knowledge transfer enabling independent content and product maintenance

Business Outcomes and Benefits

Live in June 2025
Launch Date 
250 products live 
Catalog at Launch 
122.5 hours saved, saving the client 27% on cost  
Development Efficiency 

Specification Details

Platform Shopify
Theme Kalles, a multipurpose Online Store 2.0 theme with flexible product-page layouts, quick view, wishlist/compare, and native 3D/AR product viewing
Product Customization Shopify metafields for configuration-only options; third-party product-options app for price-affecting custom fields
Cart & Checkout Logic Custom category-based cart restriction rules, custom shipping method rules
Shipping Native multi-location shipping profiles grouped by product size/weight and fulfillment origin, plus a flat regional rate for locally fulfilled floor-model items, used instead of upgrading to the Advanced Shopify plan for carrier-calculated rates
Storefront Features Wishlist, Compare, Quick View, variant swatches, multi-location showroom pages, Design Trade Program page
Structured Content Shopify metaobjects for reusable, structured showroom location content (address, hours, contact details)
SEO On-page meta titles/descriptions, Open Graph tags, canonical tags, structured URL/collection architecture

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