Monza Design Limited Edition Eyewear’s latest collection features elite styles that symbolize the golden age of racing. Adapted aviator and modern motorsports shapes with balanced proportions combine in strong colors to maximize vision within this range of high-tech designs. Co-founded by David Lee and Ross Vance, the collection is driven by discerning taste and a unique understanding of the industry as well as the most innovative and complex treatments, tooling and technologies in the industry. The collection was launched during Monterey Car Week.
The limited range includes deconstructed design elements across the face and temples including screws, rivets, fender detailing and racing lines. Modified navigators, aviator styles, historical panto shapes, modern shields, and goggle designs are creating new icons of style and champions of eyewear excellence. A variety of unique applications in lacquers and enamel techniques are all done by hand. The racing line, a signature detail representing the fastest way around the track, is incorporated into the curves etched around each Monza Limited Edition frame. Apex to edge, temple or lens, the unique design distinction showcases elements of the course with movement, beauty and a connection to the track.
David Lee is a renowned jeweler retailer and a globally-recognized Ferrari collector with over 30 years in the luxury industry. Influenced by European style, automotive racing and classic car collecting, he is credited by industry insiders for the best resto-mod to one of the most beautiful cars Enzo Ferrari ever created. His Dino sports car project, the Monza 3.6 EVO, is considered the car that should have been built, with a Ferrari V8 engine possessing 400 horsepower and countless other modifications, and is the vision behind Monza Design. Lee partnered with Ross Vance, chief engineer, Sama Eyewear, to create Monza Design Eyewear, an advanced take on a classic luxury with automotive styling, modern technology and premium materials.
Monza Design is the new expression of authentic luxury eyewear with flashbacks of legends, speed, sound and style for those who move full throttle through the track of life. “Formula 1 has never been just about racing, it has been a global lifestyle full of excitement, elegance, incredible precision and style, all of which we captured in creating our Monza Design Eyewear,” said Vance.
Each pair of Monza Design Limited Edition Eyewear is lightweight, durable and 100% hypoallergenic, made exclusively in Japan. Using only the finest in premium materials including pure titanium ore and plant-based non-petroleum Japanese cellulose acetate, each piece takes over three months and 500 hours to craft with over 20 technical processes, 100 hand applications and unique treatments in each piece which meets the rigor of the Japanese governmental code for strength and durability. The Monza lens, also produced in Japan, is the finest quality optical-grade, preventing 100% of UV rays with a multi-layered anti-reflection coating for infinite crystal-clear vision.
