You already have a home. Maybe it is on the water, maybe it is on a couple of acres out past the highway, maybe it is exactly where you want to raise a family or spend a quiet weekend. This is not about replacing that.
This is about the pied-a-terre. French for “foot on the ground.” A second home in the heart of the city, for the person whose real life is somewhere else. You keep the house, the yard, the quiet on the outer edge of the region. You add a home downtown for the nights you do not want to make the drive, the mornings you have a meeting in town, the weekends built around a game, a show, and dinner you did not have to plan around a two hour round trip.
It is one of the oldest luxuries in the world’s great cities, and Seattle finally has a building worth it.
The only building in Seattle where every home holds an original work of art
First Light was developed by Westbank, designed by architect James K.M. Cheng, and wrapped in glass by Seattle artist John Hogan. This tower is not decorated with art. The art is the architecture. A luminous glass veil refracts Seattle’s own light into thousands of moments across the exterior, and inside, every single residence holds a one of a kind Hogan light sculpture. No two homes are the same.
The materials are Seattle’s own. Raw concrete, shown with pride. Warm terrazzo. Applewood interiors that carry the orchards woven through the building all the way into your living room. A range of greys chosen for the way light actually behaves west of the Cascades. This building could not exist anywhere else, because it was drawn for this city’s light and this city’s heritage, and nowhere else.
You are not buying square footage. You are collecting a piece of art that happens to live inside your home.
Work the week. Own the weekend.
Downtown for the week. You take the meeting in person instead of on a screen. You stay the night instead of fighting the bridge or the ferry. Your closet, your kitchen, your coffee, already here.
Yours for the weekend. Walk to a Mariners or Kraken game. Symphony, SAM, and Pike Place within a few blocks. Dinner reservations you actually keep because you are not driving home after. The city as your neighborhood, for as long as you want it, then back to the quiet whenever you please.
Lock and leave. Travel for a month and close the door behind you. Concierge at the desk, secure parking below, package handling, and a building that runs itself while you are gone.
Forty-eight floors of reasons to stay in the city
A 25 meter cantilevered sky pool on the 47th floor, with hot tubs, spa, and a fire pit. A rooftop garden and glass cube on the 48th, home to more of Hogan’s sculptures. Fitness and yoga on the 46th. 24 hour concierge, a grand piano in the lobby, secure parking, a bike lounge, and pet play and grooming. Three hundred sixty degree views of Rainier, Elliott Bay, the Space Needle, and the Olympics, three blocks from Pike Place, the waterfront, and the stadium district.
The homes
First Light offers a full range, from intimate studios ideal for a true lock and leave, to two bedroom corners with two exposures and room to host. Every home, at every size, comes with its own original Hogan light sculpture and the same applewood, concrete, and terrazzo palette that runs through the tower.
I am representing the tower’s flagship residence, forty-five floors up with views on every side. If a place in the city is something you have circled for a while, or if you know someone who has, I would love to show you what I mean instead of just telling you.
Reply to this or reach out directly, and I will show you the two or three homes that actually fit, not the whole building.
Talk soon,
Ronny
