FORMICA SOLAR FLARE · Édition d’Artiste

Formica Solar Flare 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.

Crafted in October 2025, this edition is rendered in Napoli Yellow Italian acetate, a classic Mediterranean tone that belongs to Southern Italy, sun baked facades, and heat shimmering off coastal stone. I hand picked this color myself. Tommaso mentioned Dalí’s love for yellow and how it appears with intention in his world. Once he said that, I realized how much I loved yellow too, and what it brings when you wear it. Joy, warmth, confidence, a strange optimism that feels almost rebellious. Dalí returned to yellow as pure voltage, illumination, menace, genius, the charged air before something unreal steps into the room.

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.

The temples translate the ant motif into sculptural lines, with proportions that nod to Dalí’s long legged 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

• Crafted: October 2025

• 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

• 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 in Napoli Yellow

• Hardware: Stainless steel core with precision hinges

• Lenses: ZEISS certified polarized, impact resistant sunglass lenses

• Signatures: Salvador Dalí engraved on temple and on lens

• Interior Engravings: Dalí quotations on the inside of the frame, hand painted

• 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
  

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

Dalí Reference Index

• The Great Masturbator (1929)

• The Persistence of Memory (1931)

• The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)

Size, Fit, and Weight

• Lens Width: 44 mm

• Bridge: 26 mm

• Temple Length: 95 mm

• Frame Width: 147 mm

• Weight: 34 grams