Verrière

Overview

Verrière is held to five structural rules, each a deliberate break from the generic dark-hero template a studio like this could have drifted into. Navigation is a fixed vertical rail on the left, never a top bar. There is no full-viewport photo hero with a headline parked in the bottom-left corner. Content lives inside irregular glass quarries inside a leaded grid, never in full-width stacked bands of eyebrow-heading-paragraph. Colour is saturated — ruby, cobalt, emerald, amber — on near-black lead, not a muted two-tone palette. And the footer is a maker’s-mark plate, not four columns of links. The glass itself carries a genuine SVG-filter antique texture, and a scroll-driven sun angle relights every pane live — made smooth by registering –-sun, –-lux and –-tint as typed custom properties via @property, since a plain custom property can’t be interpolated and the gradient would otherwise jump on every scroll frame instead of sweeping across the panes.