Twelve Chairs Interiors

• Announcement
• November 14, 2022

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It's a DEA professors's dream. Two students in a small program within DEA, meet, work well together, become best friends, and start their own successful niche interior design business. Their names are Miggy Mason and Roisin Giese, and this is their story of realizing their dreams that started at Cornell. Plus - they have the greatest personalities and chemistry - you will love getting to know them.

• Announcement
• September 29, 2022

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In 2020, a young family was looking to renovate key spaces of their traditional home including the kitchen and primary suite. They wanted to keep its historic charm while adding modern functionality to enhance and streamline everyday living. The renovation respected the vocabulary of the historic home, a quality they loved, while also ensuring it felt approachable and livable for their growing family.

• Announcement
• September 1, 2022

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Roisin Giese is an unabashed lover of old houses. The Cohasset, Massachusetts, home she shares with her husband and two young sons is a colonial-style house built in 1926. “I wanted old. I wanted soul and character,” she says. Most of her clients feel the same way; Giese’s firm, Twelve Chairs Interiors, specializes in working with homeowners on their older homes. “It’s what we love doing, and it’s become our niche,” she says. “In New England, there are so many beautiful old homes and so many young families moving into them.” Giese and business partner Miggy Mason named their firm Twelve Chairs in honor of their classmates in Cornell University’s interior design program. “There were only twelve of us, and we were all women,” she says. “We were a close-knit group.” The duo opened the Twelve Chairs Shop and Studio in 2010, quickly winning accolades, including making the What’s Hot list in Elle Decor in 2011. The key to their success? “We really understand our clients, how they live, how they want to live, and their family’s stories,” Giese says. “Our spaces are layered, incorporating custom, unique pieces and clients’ existing pieces that they love.” Drawing on the work of local artisans also helps give Twelve Chairs homes their unique character. “Our approach to sustainability is to use things that will last and be passed on,” Giese says. “We call them the vintage of the future.” In 2020, Twelve Chairs closed the shop to focus on interior design, with Giese working from her Cohasset office and Mason heading up a second office in the Philadelphia area. For Giese, the appeal of working with old houses is simple: “Preserving the character but making them work for modern-day families—when you nail that synergy it’s really special.”

• Press Release
• April 7, 2022

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Twelve Chairs Principal and Co-Founder Roisin Giese was named one of New England Home's 2022 5 Under 40 Winners at a champagne reception at Landry and Arcari in Boston on Thursday, April 7. Roisin's fellow honorees this year are as follows: Architecture: Erika L. Dodge, ELD Architecture, Stowe, VT Interior Design: Hannah Oravec, Lawless Design, Plymouth, MA Lauren Hamilton, August Interiors, Wellesley, MA Landscape Design: Devin Hefferon, Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design, Stoneham, MA & Portland, ME The following panel of judges, experts in their respective fields, selected this group of honorees: David Andreozzi, RIBA, Founder, Andreozzi Architecture, Barrington, RI Renée Byers, Principal, Renée Byers Landscape Architect, Greenwich, CT Bob Ernst, President, FBN Construction, Boston, MA Eric Roseff, Principal/Owner, Eric Roseff Designs, Boston, MA About the 5 Under 40 Awards Now in its thirteenth year, the 5 Under 40 Awards spotlight the hottest emerging talent in high-end residential design, including architecture, interior design, landscape design, and specialty design such as textiles, furniture, or home accessories, in New England. Each year, the 5 Under 40 winners partner with presenting sponsor Landry & Arcari Rugs and Carpeting to design their own one-of-a-kind rugs, all five of which will be auctioned off at an awards celebration on Thursday, September 15. All auction proceeds go to Barakat, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based charitable organization dedicated to providing education and literacy to children in South East Asia. For more information about 5 Under 40 Awards, visit nehomemag.com/5-under-40/about.