Press Release
Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee by Mu Qiao Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Mu Qiao honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee by Mu Qiao has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee
Eson Optical and Cafe is a concept store that combines eyewear retail with a boutique coffee bar. The interior is arranged as a sequence of areas for coffee, rest, display and eyewear fitting, so the plan unfolds step by step. Framed sightlines guide attention toward the eyewear on display. Light, transparency and tactile materials shape each scene and give the interior a vibrant character. The design reflects contemporary youth culture and offers an urban commercial space with quality, diversity and vitality.
Award Record
With this recognition, Mu Qiao is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/182607
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/182607
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!182607
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/380850
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee
- Function
- Eyewear Retail and Coffee
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mu Qiao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #182607
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A spatially integrated eyewear and coffee concept store that frames vision, materiality, and urban lifestyle through light, texture, and scenographic design. The ESON Optical & Cafe concept store explores the fusion of eyewear retail and boutique coffee through spatial sequencing, framed sightlines, and tactile materials. By orchestrating light, transparency, and texture, the project creates a vibrant urban interior that reflects contemporary youth culture and evolving lifestyle values.
- Inspiration
- The design aims to integrate the glasses and coffee formats, use the vibrant material mechanism and natural light and shadow to realize the scene shaping, and finally convey the attitude of contemporary young people towards life and the world in an artistic way, and create a new urban commercial space with quality, diversity and vitality. Coffee, rest, display, refining and other spaces are unfolded in order to form a space "growth".
