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A central barista counter anchored by brilliant white terrazzo-style composite surfacing flecked with charcoal and umber aggregates establishes the compositional fulcrum, its rectangular form…

Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee by Mu Qiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


BronzeInterior· 2026

Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee

by Mu Qiao

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

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.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Eson Optical and Cafe Eyewear Retail and Coffee splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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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".

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