LIGHT FANTASTIC

Featuring walls of glass, a natural stone facade and post-and-beam construction, the 1962 Cornet Residence, designed by pioneering Modernist architects Smith & Williams, looked like an ideal home for Midcentury Modern fans. ¶ But Jenny Levy wasn’t one of them. ¶ “You could feel the angst,” Levy says of the dismal interiors she toured at a 2012 open house. “I did not want this house.” ¶ But there was no denying that it was something of a find — an architecturally significant house with good bones. A look at the transformation: