A Family Business, Twenty Years In
The belief that never changed: the best design starts with how you want to live.
A family business built on
the art of listening.
Divine Design Center began with a simple truth: the best design starts with understanding how people actually want to live.
In 2004, Mariette and Magued Barsoum founded Divine at the urging of the clients who had come to trust them. Mariette's gift for design — rooted in years of listening,refining, and imagining — combined with Magued's engineering precision to create something the Boston design world hadn't seen before: a studio built to work alongside architects and designers, not around them — bringing European excellence to American homes with a warmth and care that made every project feel personal. Boston is home — the place where two people built something on nothing but trust and word of mouth, one family at a time.
Mariette & Magued Barsoum —Founders
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The Road to Divine
2004
Divine is Founded
Mariette and Magued Barsoum open Divine Kitchens in Boston — built on the loyalty of clients who refused to let them stop.
The Boston Globe story2013
LEICHT Boston Opens
A showroom dedicated to one brand: 1,700 square feet at the Boston Design Center, given entirely to Leicht. One of the world's finest kitchen makers, in a space worthy of it.
2017
The waterfront
Divine moves to its current home — 8,000 square feet on Boston's waterfront, the largest luxury lifestyle showroom in New England.
North End Waterfront story2020
Reimagined, mid-pandemic
A complete showroom renovation — new displays, new brands, new vision. A statement of faith in the future.
2024
Twenty years
Divine marks two decades of design in Boston, with clients now reaching far beyond it.
Today
Coast to Coast
Boston's most awarded luxury design studio — 10+ consecutive years, Best of Houzz — reaching families from coast to coast.
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The team behind every project
One designer leads your home from first conversation to final installation, with the founders guiding every project behind them.
Hand-picked for their gift, trained in the Divine method, and yours by name from day one.
Europe’s finest brands, exclusive to Divine
Trusted by top architects and designers
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See our work
The homes tell it better than we can. Whole-home projects, coast to coast, told room by room.
Visit the showroom
Eight thousand square feet on Boston's Battery Wharf, open five days a week. And when you're ready, The Living Showroom waits, by private invitation.