Ersie
Ersie Cafe and Restaurant by Ali Moazzen is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design.
Ersie is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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This project transforms a historic Qajar era villa into a modern cafe restaurant while preserving its architectural authenticity. Restored features include Orsi windows, intricate plaster moldings, and wooden doors. Structural reinforcement with masonry and sustainable materials ensures stability. Advanced HVAC systems and adaptive lighting enhance functionality. Accessibility features like an elevator and Braille menus promote inclusivity. This design seamlessly blends heritage with contemporary needs, creating a unique and inviting space.
Featured Design
Ersie by Ali Moazzen
Core Functionality
Cafe and Restaurant
Accolades
Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award Winner in 2025.
Bronze Winner
Ersie Cafe and Restaurant
Ersie is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much 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. Ersie 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. Ersie splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Ali Moazzen
Ali Moazzen comes from a family with a long-standing history in the eyewear industry. Their family business has been centered around the manufacturing and sale of glasses. Building on this legacy, Ali Moazzen, with his passion for history and culture, founded the Erthieh Cafe. This cafe, designed and styled with inspiration from vintage and traditional eyewear, creates a nostalgic atmosphere. Continuing this journey, he transformed the Erthieh Mansion, an old house, into a multifunctional space that serves as both a cafe and restaurant, as well as a cultural and social hub for the community. These projects have allowed Ali Moazzen to not only preserve and promote cultural heritage but also create a space conducive to social and cultural interactions.
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Ersie Mansion
A revitalized Qajar-era villa in Qazvin (2023), blending historic preservation with modern functionality. The design maintains original architecture, integrates accessibility features, and creates a seamless flow between past and present, transforming the space into a vibrant café-restaurant.
Winner Brand
Ersie
Ersie Group is a creative team specializing in the restoration and adaptive reuse of historic buildings, transforming them into contemporary spaces while preserving their traditional essence. The group handles all aspects of the process, from research and
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