— Bathrooms as private architecture. The room nobody sees, made the way nobody asked.
Inside a Cortes home, the bathroom is the quietest experiment. Marble that catches the light slowly. Stone returns squared by hand. Tile laid one piece at a time, without urgency. The hand shows here too.
El cuarto privado de la casa — donde la mano se nota más, porque nadie está mirando.
Casa UNO at Hunyadi has six bathrooms — none of them repeats another. Each is composed for a different time of day, a different person, a different room of the house. One of one, six times over.
Cortes takes bathroom work seriously because the bathroom is where construction stops being a structure and becomes a body's experience. Stone meets skin. Light meets steam. The grain of a vanity is read at arm's length, not from a doorway. Errors here are felt, not seen.
Across Greenwich, Fairfield, and Medellín, every Cortes bathroom is built by the same crew that pours the foundation. The hand that lays the cornerstone lays the last piece of marble.
A first chapter — material studies from the rooms we built. Project-specific bathroom photography rolling out across 2026 as each Casa is photographed at its own pace. Sin prisa.
Bathroom-specific photography from 33 Meeting House, the Chapel Lanes, and Casa UNO is being shot one room at a time. We will not rush her.
Bathrooms are where the standard sets itself. The crew that lays a Cortes bathroom is the crew that frames the house. Same hand, same standard. Browse the broader record of work — Greenwich estates, Fairfield County builds, restorations and demolitions — at /projects/.
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