Twelve years of foundations. Three Cortes custom builds in Greenwich. The trilogy — Casa UNO, DOS, TRES. Read each one slowly.
Twelve years of foundations poured, restorations made, homes raised.
Three Cortes Greenwich custom builds. The three-home trilogy.
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What follows is the body of work in chronological lineage — the Cortes custom builds raised on the Connecticut Gold Coast before the trilogy was named, and the three More Life homes that now carry the name forward. Sin prisa, sin venta.
An estate is a place where the land does most of the talking. Cortes built her with that in mind — a structure that doesn't compete with what surrounds her, only listens. Land first, house second.
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A house Cortes built once and refined twice — across two owners, four years, and a thousand quiet decisions. The demolition and the construction were done by the same hands, in the same season, the way a single line of work flows when you are not subcontracting your name out. Built once. Refined again.
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A quiet Greenwich custom build, the foundation poured before the trilogy was named. The first of three estates Cortes raised on Chapel Lane and its neighborhood — the year the family began to build at scale in Greenwich. It belongs in this list because the trilogy stands on what was laid here.
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"1 of 1" — means there is nothing like her. Six bathrooms. All 1 of 1. Marble that doesn't repeat itself. Light arranged the way a film would arrange it — slow, deliberate, returning. This is where the trilogy begins.
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"The trilogy continues. She sits at the edge of the earth." Where UNO holds the colonial form in conversation with light, DOS releases that form to the open coast. The same family of decisions; a different room of the world. Time in motion — time becoming form.
Read on"The trilogy ends where the family began. Where everything started returns transformed." Not by repeating either home before her — by holding what they taught us and turning it back toward the place that taught us first. We return to the beginning, transformed.
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