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Boutique Hotel · Concept case study

Hudson & Vale

A quiet stay, at the center of it all.

What we’d do
Brand & website
Type system
Prata + Jost
Palette
Warm slate, cream, soft gold

This is a concept, not a real client. Hudson & Vale is a self-directed project we designed to show how we’d approach this kind of business — the name and details are invented. When we have live client work, it will be clearly labeled as such.

Hudson & Vale Boutique Hotel
Hotel courtyard with a swimming pool shaded by olive trees
Twelve Rooms · Downtown Napa

A quiet stay, at the center of it all.

A courtyard pool, a cellar list built by our sommelier, and rooms designed for staying a little longer than planned.

Check availability
Courtyard Pool

Shaded by olive trees, open from sunrise to midnight.

Sommelier’s Cellar

A curated list built around valley producers, poured nightly.

Twelve Rooms

Each one different, all designed for staying a little longer.

Concept homepage design by Ridgeline Design Studio · not a live client site
The brief
Design a site for a twelve-room downtown hotel that feels as calm and considered as a night’s stay — and turns browsers into direct bookings, away from the commission-hungry travel sites.
The thinking
We led with a single, unhurried image and one clear action: check availability. The courtyard pool, the sommelier’s cellar, and the rooms are each framed as a reason to stay a little longer, not a feature list. The layout keeps a generous, restful rhythm so the hotel feels like a retreat before a guest ever arrives.

Type & identity

Prata, a high-contrast display serif, gives the wordmark and headlines a quiet, established elegance — the confidence a boutique hotel earns over years. Jost, a geometric sans, keeps labels and details clean and modern so the serif never tips into fussy.

Color

A warm slate near-black grounds the palette, cream keeps it airy, and a restrained soft-gold accent signals hospitality and warmth without a single cliché flourish.

Results
To be filled

Because this is a concept, there are no live results to report. Once it’s real client work, the measurable outcomes — load time, phone calls, bookings, or search ranking — will appear here with the actual numbers. We won’t invent them.

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