Maison Amira
A fine patisserie presented the way the product deserves, built with no framework at all.
- Category
- Showcase
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Art direction & build
Overview
A photography-led showcase for a patisserie: the story, the menu in French and Levantine, a gallery, and the details someone actually needs before visiting.
The challenge
Food photography carries this kind of site entirely, and there was none — no shoot, no budget, and stock imagery that never matched the actual product.
Approach
The photography was generated to a tight art direction, then colour-matched, cropped and optimised as a real shoot would be — so the imagery serves the layout instead of the layout apologising for the imagery.
Design
Unhurried. Cream and antique gold, a display serif against a quiet sans, and enough space around each plate that the page reads as a menu rather than a catalogue.
Development
No framework and no build step. Scroll reveals, a lightbox gallery and a condensing header, all in vanilla JavaScript with a no-observer fallback so the content is never trapped behind an effect.
Responsive
The gallery moves from a staggered two-column arrangement to a single column, and the menu keeps its price alignment at every width using tabular figures.
Gallery
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