FORMICA SERGENT · Édition d’Artiste

Formica Sergent is a Maison Marcel collaboration with Dalí Universe, created as a licensed Salvador Dalí product designed to live two lives at once, on the face and in the archive.

This variant is built around clarity and control. A translucent, stone tinted front reads like a specimen case, clean, architectural, almost clinical. Then the mood breaks. Olive field temples cut through the neutrality, and a soft rose gradient lens shifts the gaze into something dreamlike. Sergent feels like discipline entering a hallucination, order walking straight into surrealism and refusing to look away.

Dalí never used the ant as decoration. He used it like a warning flare. In his universe, ants arrive when something is too polished, too permanent, too convinced of itself. They crawl into the image as a quiet force of decay, dissolving the illusion of perfection and reminding you that time always wins. That is why Formica exists. I tied the ant to this frame as a ceremonial death of conventional eyewear. Not a trend shift, a burial. The end of safe shapes, safe taste, safe vision. The ant becomes the architect of transformation, eating away the old rules until something surreal is revealed underneath. What remains is not better eyewear. It is a new object with a pulse. Decay is the doorway. Decay is how the unreal enters the room.

Sergent is also an error version, and that is part of its authority. Some of the engraved scripture on the temples appears upside down, and portions of the engraving were executed incorrectly. To me, that flaw is the point. Dalí built entire worlds around mistakes, distortions, and the beauty of what should not happen. This pair carries that same energy. It refuses factory perfection and becomes more honest because of it, a proof that the object was made by hands, not by a machine trying to erase the human mark.

The temples translate the ant motif into sculptural lines, with proportions that nod to Dalí’s elephant imagery, weightlessness made architectural, elegance made strange. Salvador Dalí’s signature is engraved on the temple, with a second signature placed on the lens, preserving authorship in both structure and gaze. Inside the frame, two Dalí quotations are engraved and then hand painted as a hidden interior narrative: “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” and “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”

Each Édition d’Artiste arrives with a hand finished sculptural stand made in Italy and Dalí commemorative packaging, completing the work as a displayable object. Every piece is authenticated by an accompanying Certificate of Authenticity, linking the E.A. mark on the temple to its recorded entry within the Maison Marcel × Dalí Universe archive.

Provenance

• Collaboration: Maison Marcel × Dalí Universe

• Status: Licensed Salvador Dalí product

• Edition: Édition d’Artiste, 111 worldwide

• Uniqueness: Each piece is a 1 of 1, with 111 total 1 of 1 artifacts produced in this design

• Variant Note: Error version with upside down temple scripture and incorrect engraving, preserved as made

• Serialization: Marked E.A. on the side of the temple and recorded within the archive

• Authentication: Certificate of Authenticity included

• Object Set: Frame paired with sculptural stand made in Italy and commemorative packaging

Details

• Origin: Handcrafted in Modena, Italy

• Finish: Hand finished with hand painted details in Modena, Italy

• Material: Premium Italian cellulose acetate, translucent stone tinted front with olive field temples

• Hardware: Stainless steel core with precision hinges

• Lenses: ZEISS certified polarized, impact resistant rose gradient sunglass lenses

• Signatures: Salvador Dalí engraved on temple and on lens

• Interior Engravings: Dalí quotations on the inside of the frame, hand painted for contrast and permanence

• Stand: Hand finished sculptural stand made in Italy

• Packaging: Dalí commemorative presentation packaging, soft carrier, microfiber cloth, Certificate of Authenticity, authenticity and warranty cards, care booklet

• Shipping: Ships within 7 business days

• Craft Note: Each pair is handmade and will show subtle variations

Dalí Reference Index

• The Great Masturbator (1929)

• The Persistence of Memory (1931)

• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)

• The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)

• The Elephants (1948)

Size, Fit, and Weight

• Lens Width: 44 mm

• Bridge: 26 mm

• Temple Length: 95 mm

• Frame Width: 147 mm

• Weight: 34 grams