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Published 09 February 2017 Worst company I have dealt with Updated 09 February 2017Table ChalkboardChalkboard FramesBig ChalkboardKitchen BlackboardOversized ChalkboardVintage ChalkboardRustic TableFarmhouse TableFarm TableForwardfarmhouse dining / rustic table, chalkboard wall, pendant lamp. I like tile under table and wood elsewhere.Dining Tables & Chairs Bar Tables & Stools Dining Table & Chair Sets Pair of dining chairs Buy from This Is It Stores Buy from Furniture Box Buy from Oak Furniture King Buy from Atlantic ShoppingI saw a case that Consumer Champions covered, whereby a retailer’s promise of eight weeks’ delivery turned into a 38-week wait, and thought that my situation might fall into the same category. In mid-October last year I ordered furniture worth around £6,000 from DFS for pre-Christmas delivery. Part of the order was delivered as promised, but the main sofa, which cost £2,298, did not turn up until early February.
By that time the furniture was reduced by more than £800 in a sale. I have sent at least 10 emails and made around eight or 10 calls, but DFS refuses to accept its mistake – and I had to accept the sofa after three months without proper compensation. I have approached my credit provider and the Furniture Ombudsman for compensation, and would like to put a claim for the full order or cancellation through my credit provider (even if I have to take them to court). I am ready for a long battle with DFS, but at the same time would like this to be highlighted so that the company is forced to give better service to its customers. We can understand your frustration, particularly when you see the price of furniture you have not received marked down for the benefit of other shoppers in the sale. As you consider that you received a poor service from DFS, you could, in theory, take your case to the county court, though it would expect you to have already exhausted an alternative dispute resolution route – in your case, the Furniture Ombudsman.
This scheme has frequently featured on these pages, as it often seems to side with the retailer. However, neither option was needed in the end. We got in touch with DFS, which has unpicked your problem and tells us it has all been resolved to your satisfaction. It said: “At DFS we take customer service extremely seriously, so we are very sorry to hear that MK hasn’t had a satisfactory experience. We can confirm that MK received part-delivery of his DFS order on 19 December 2015, as arranged, but unfortunately we were unable to deliver the sofa. When we received the sofa in our warehouse, our quality control team flagged a small issue, and as such we were not prepared to dispatch it as it didn’t meet our stringent quality standards. “We arranged for MK to receive courtesy loan furniture in December while he waited for his sofa. In the meantime, the model MK had ordered was reduced in our winter sale so, as a gesture of goodwill, we agreed to match the sale price. We also offered to give MK further financial compensation due to the inconvenience of the delay.
“The sofa arrived with us at the end of January and we have been trying to deliver it since this date. MK accepted delivery at the end of February and we can confirm the issue has been resolved to his satisfaction.” You have not been impressed by DFS and its latest offer, but we understand you have now accepted it. We welcome letters but cannot answer individually. or write to Consumer Champions, Money, the Guardian, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. Please include a daytime phone numberI can imagine a bewildered 15th-century merchant sailing into the modern day port of Venice, jam-packed with selfie-stick-strapped visitors, and I hear him saying with an eyebrow raised to their shipmate, “Come si dice . . . tchotchke?” It’s what I was thinking anyway, as I, a complete newbie to this glorious city in northern Italy, arrived at my hotel in a wooden boat earlier this week. Those old masters of trade could not have had a clue of how Venice would evolve—that the narrow streets would eventually be full of stalls selling flimsy gondolier hats and plastic Venetian masks.
Even the pizza looked like it was plucked from a corner in Times Square.But it wasn’t all kitsch and clutter. After my boat ride to the exquisite Danieli Hotel, I set off to wander aimlessly. I quickly discovered what I’d always heard was delightful about Venice: the romance, the sensationally dilapidated architecture, the quiet courtyards, and the quaint trattorias. I found one to sit at, albeit one across from another sad souvenir shop, and enjoyed an espresso—it was an overnight flight and I was only in town for two days, for a purpose that was starting to seem a bit ironic based on my initial observations. I had taken my first trip to Venice to witness the opening of the area’s first luxury department store, and I began to wonder, was commerce in the floating city about to come full circle?Midmorning the following day, we arrived to the Fondaco Dei Tedeschi, one of the most famous buildings in Venice located at the foot of the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal. The 72,355-square-foot structure was built in the 13th century as a commercial trading center, and at one point in its very early years, it earned half of the fiscal revenues of the city.
Later, it was used as a customs house under Napoleon and eventually a post office. After a fire destroyed the building in 1505, the Venetian Senate paid to have it restored, but it sat dormant for centuries. Now it is owned by the Benetton family, and three years ago, they agreed to lease the space out to the LVMH–owned luxury travel company DFS. Today, the building opens as T Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a lavish, high-end shopping center that has been updated by OMA and Rem Koolhaas, with interiors by the architect who re-created spaces for Selfridges and Versace—Jamie Fobert. “As you walk through this city, you quickly realize that the retail offering is not that great, especially compared to Rome, to Milan,” explained the CEO of DFS, Philippe Schaus. “Yes, you can find luxury commerce here, but it is spread out and it is limited. There isn’t one place you can go to find a succinct, well-curated shopping experience.” So, DFS decided to open their very first European retail space in the city of Venice.
“We entered into this project three years ago and asked, ‘Can this become the Harrods of Italy?’”OMA’s redesign of the four-story Fondaco is nothing less than extraordinary, as Koolhaas and his team have created a space that brilliantly balances the old with the new, like exposing the old brick walls in certain areas, maintaining the original archways and untouched corner rooms, and incorporating classic terrazzo floors. Also of note are the eye-popping bright red escalators paneled in light wood and detailed with brass.Inside each of the store spaces, Fobert added contemporary vibes with minimal, matte gold displays, modern, geometric light fixtures and carpeting, and on the women’s shoe floor, a couple of impressive solid marble tables manipulated to look as though the hard material was actually draped fabric.The design does well to highlight the diverse offering of more than 300 brands curated by DFS, including homegrown labels like Fendi, Max Mara, Armani, Valentino, Bottega Veneta, and Gucci.
The latter two even have their own shop-in-shops on the ground floor. Other brands offered include Tiffany and Co., Loewe, Chanel watches, Bally, Burberry, Saint Laurent, and many, many more. There is some ready-to-wear, but mainly, the stock is made up of accessories, jewelry, watches, and beauty. But perhaps more important than the designer names are the objects found on the ground floor, a place of discovery for those in desperate search of the real Venetian treasures after weeding through the fakes and phonies in the city’s bustling souvenir stores. “We wanted to bring back the authentic crafts of Venice,” says Schaus. “Those things you see in the streets are mostly made in Asia. We wanted to sell the best of the best, to pay homage to the real beauty and artistry that exists here.”There were handmade Murano glass vases in pops of greens, blues, and reds, embellished Venetian masks in glass display cases, and the ubiquitous gondolier hats and striped shirts, but here they were made of the finest materials and pristinely folded and stacked as if they were Comme des Garçons tees on a shelf at Barneys.
Just through the corridor, there’s a room filled with Italian goodies like gourmet pastas, jams, truffles, cheeses, and meats. Nearby, the in-house brand called Rialto was displayed in pretty, pastel packages filled with olive oils and biscotti. I even spotted an abstract-looking mannequin dressed in a chic apron illustrated with a bowl of spaghetti and the words “I love pasta.”If tourists come to Venice to buy things, they also come to eat as the Italians do, though, like their souvenir-shop counterparts, the Venetian food scene can be more than a little dodgy. The T Fondaco took this into consideration and hired Massimiliano Alajmo, one of the area’s most renowned chefs, who, at 28, was the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars for his restaurant Le Calandre. The concept he created with his brother and partner Raf Alajmo is called amo, which translates to “I love.”There are two dining options in Fondaco: a gorgeous little café and pastry shop, and a lunch and dinner dining area in the middle of the ground floor.
The menus focus on fresh, local raw fish, vegetables, and meats, as well as Alajmo’s interpretation of pizza, all of which is meant to be shared. The legendary Philippe Starck, who has lived on the Venetian island of Burano for nearly 30 years, designed the café and the main dining space. “For me, this was the right opportunity to create something in Venice, to speak about Venice,” he explains. “It was a challenge to concentrate just on two chairs, one sofa, one table, and one lamp, but I wanted to create little vignettes that spoke to the mystery of Venice: the black-and-white striped sofa that envelops you like a gondola, nods to Murano glass in the lamps, and so on.”If the ground floor of the Fondaco is indeed its center of gravity, but it’s the very top of the building that brings everything into perspective. OMA converted the last level of the original building, which was previously used as a greenhouse, into an event space and terrace. It will be open to the public and will host a variety of cultural programming and rotating art exhibitions, the first of which is a video installation of mosaics moving through liquid by the local artist Fabrizio Plessi.