A Japanese leather wallet from Zucchero in Osaka, with a row of wildflowers pressed into the front, each stem a different plant, running the full width like a band lifted from a botanical plate.
It opens twice. The coin frame lifts at the top on its own clasp, so a handful of change is reachable without unfolding anything, and the pale twill lining makes small coins easy to find. Below that the wallet folds flat to stepped card slots and a longer pocket for notes, held shut by a press stud. Seven cards, notes and coins in something that still sits in a coat pocket.
The leather is oil-shrink cowhide, tanned so the grain draws up tight and gives a faint creak when you close your hand around it. It loosens to the shape of your hand the more it is carried. The brass is left bright rather than antiqued, which lifts the whole thing against the leather and gives the closing a small satisfying weight. It arrives in its own box.
