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Wade WuDesign & development

03 / Independent restaurant website

A table.
A sense of place.

La Villa Simone, Sauzon. An earlier AI-assisted restaurant concept, developed into a complete, human-reviewed front-end.

Role
Art direction, content structure
Astro / CSS / TypeScript
Scope
Four responsive pages
French-language interface
Identity
Independent concept
Not a paid commission
Explore the working website ↗
Actual desktop browser capture of the completed Villa Simone website
Working website / actual browser capture

01 / The starting point

Keep the place.
Finish the journey.

The retained September concept had a real photograph and a considered green-and-ivory direction. It was still a short preview tied to a single dinner date. This revision removes the expired date, gives the kitchen and house their own pages, and makes the venue's current reservation page the single source for availability.

Retained original Villa Simone concept, with its historical September dinner date
Earlier concept / retained for comparison. The displayed date is historical.

02 / Design & implementation

A house,
not a template.

The real dining-room photograph leads the composition. Botanical greens, an open serif rhythm and the restaurant's existing mark carry the identity across each page.

A tangible menu.

A folded-paper composition contains the sourced set-menu information. Native details disclose practical notes without a custom JavaScript dependency.

Motion with a purpose.

Small pointer movement animates the existing photograph; sections enter gently as they become visible. Both stop under reduced motion. Content remains available without JavaScript.

One reservation route.

All booking actions link to the venue's official page. There is no imitation booking form, collected guest data or invented availability.

03 / Small screens

The same character.
A different rhythm.

On mobile the copy, actions and photo form a single column. The navigation uses an accessible menu with Escape dismissal. Cuisine, the house and directions remain separate, working routes.

Actual 390 by 844 mobile browser capture of Villa Simone
Actual mobile context / 390 × 844

04 / Project context

Assisted design.
Verified delivery.

Wade directed an AI-assisted design workflow and the front-end completion of this independent project. This website is not an autonomous output of the separate Website Transformation Agent. That Agent's actual policy and repair evidence remains in its engineering case.

Explore the engineering case ↗Venue information source ↗