Grand hotel

# Build a website in the "Grand hotel" style

You are building a production-ready website. Follow the design system below exactly and adapt the content to the project. The design comes from the Qalib library (design No. 309).

## 1. The project

- Name: [fill in]
- Type of site: [fill in]
- What it does: [fill in]
- Languages: Arabic and English: Arabic first (RTL) and a full English version (LTR) with a language switch
- Pages: One page with sections and anchor links
- Contact details: [fill in]
- Assets: No photos yet: use suitable placeholders and mark each one TODO for replacement.

## 2. Visual reference

- Live demo (Arabic): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/grand-hotel/ar.html
- Live demo (English): https://qalib.omardeek.tech/demos/grand-hotel/en.html

Each demo is one HTML file with all its CSS in a <style> tag. Download the raw file (for example `curl -s <url>`), not a summary of it, and treat its CSS as the source of truth for spacing, sizes and effects. The demo's business and text are fictional: never copy them.

## 3. Design DNA: Skeuo

Skeuomorphism: the interface copies real materials, grained wood, stitched leather, paper and polished brass, with deep shadows and buttons that look truly pressable. For crafts, watchmakers, bookshops and premium products.

- **Typography:** A classic serif in heavy weights, embossed (a light text-shadow above and a dark one below), with a comfortable serif for text.
- **Colour:** Material colours: wood and leather browns, paper cream, golden brass for buttons, and a dark green or oxblood as a second colour.
- **Layout:** Sections as different surfaces: a wooden board, a pinned sheet of paper, a stitched leather panel; cards as paper cards or drawers.
- **Shapes:** Small corners (6–10px), dashed stitching inside the edges (a dashed outline with a negative outline-offset), multi-layer shadows, and brass buttons with a four-stop gradient.
- **Imagery:** Warm photos in a white paper frame with a shadow, like prints laid on a table.
- **Motion:** Realistic and unhurried (300–500ms): buttons press in, cards lift off the surface on hover.
- **Details:** Wood grain from repeating gradients, paper texture, brass rivets in the corners, strips of tape.
- **Avoid:** Flat bright colours, modern geometric sans faces, heavy real texture photos (build the materials in CSS).

**This design in particular:** Mahogany, brass keys and the reception bell, a grand old hotel with a century's spirit.

## 4. Design tokens

```css
:root {
  --bg: #3E1A14; /* page background */
  --surface: #F3E7D3; /* cards, panels, alternate sections */
  --ink: #F7E6D0; /* main text */
  --muted: #D6B49A; /* secondary text */
  --accent: #D8AE5A; /* buttons, links, highlights */
  --accent2: #2F5A4B; /* second highlight */
  --line: #240D09; /* rules and borders */
  --on-accent: #240D09; /* text on the accent colour */
  --radius: 8px;
}
```

- Colour scheme: dark
- Fonts (available on Google Fonts and fontsource; self-host them):
  - Arabic headings: Aref Ruqaa (400, 700)
  - Arabic text: Noto Naskh Arabic (400, 600, 700)
  - Latin headings: Cinzel (400, 600, 700)
  - Latin text: EB Garamond (400, 600)
- Type scale: h1: clamp(2.7rem, 6.2vw, 5.4rem) · h2: clamp(2rem, 4.2vw, 3.3rem) · h3: 1.25rem · text: 17px with 1.7 line height (Arabic 18px and 1.9) · max width 1200px · section spacing clamp(72px, 10vw, 136px)

## 5. Page structure

The demo shows a Hotel. Build the sections with these visual treatments, in this order:

1. **Header**: The logo centred on top with the links in a row beneath it, like a masthead; the call-to-action sits at the end.
2. **Hero**: A full-screen photo under a dark gradient; the headline and buttons sit on top in white.
3. **About** «The house»: Two columns: heading, paragraphs and a short signed quote; a tall photo with a smaller photo overlapping its corner.
4. **Main offering** «Rooms & suites»: a grid of cards (photo or icon, title, short text, price or note)
5. **Extra section** «Amenities»: a grid of cards (photo or icon, title, short text, price or note)
6. **Gallery** «Gallery»: a photo grid with one large tile and captions on the photos
7. **Testimonials** «Our guests»: three testimonial cards with initials avatars
8. **Call to action** «Winter offers»: a full-width coloured band with a heading, a line of text and a button
9. **Contact** «Booking»: A large card on a tinted background: contact details on one side, the hours and button on the other.
10. **Footer**: four columns (brand and tagline, page links, contact, social) and a bottom bar

## 6. Motion

Subtle: elements fade up about 24px as they enter, staggered by 70ms; light lifts on hover.

## 7. Technical requirements

- **Stack:** Choose the stack that fits the project; prefer static HTML, CSS and JavaScript unless it needs more.
- Semantic HTML, mobile first, adapting at 360, 768, 1024 and 1440px, with no horizontal scrolling.
- Arabic: <html lang="ar" dir="rtl">, CSS logical properties (margin-inline-start, inset-inline-end…), mirrored directional icons, never letter-space or uppercase Arabic, and Arabic text at 18px or more.
- Accessibility: WCAG AA contrast, visible focus states, alt text on images, and all motion off under prefers-reduced-motion.
- Performance: self-hosted fonts with font-display: swap and only the weights and subsets in use, WebP or AVIF images with set dimensions, lazy loading below the first screen, and no heavy libraries for simple effects.
- SEO: a title and description for every page, Open Graph, a favicon, and LocalBusiness structured data where relevant.
- Buttons: WhatsApp links as https://wa.me/<number>, phone as tel:, email as mailto:.

## 8. Delivery

1. Start with the tokens and base styles, then build the sections from top to bottom.
2. Compare the result with the live demo at phone and desktop widths before you finish.
3. Finish with how to run the site and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code inside a new project folder.