Why is it that the simplest, plainest designs always cost the most? Possibly because the resulting elegance comes from lots of hard work. Or maybe it's just that the best products use the best raw materials. Whatever the reason, I must have this beautifully simple wallet, despite its $90 price tag.
The billfold–by Noah Lambert–is made from a single piece of "5oz vegetable tanned bridle leather from Wickett & Craig of Pennsylvania." It is cut and folded, and only stitched at the ends. This sparseness in construction not only makes it look good, but it keeps it tough: where do wallets always break? Along the seams. The Lambert wallet has just two.
I love that you have to stare at the various photos before you can work out just how the thing works. In the end, you'll decipher the pictures enough to see that the Uni-Fold wallet, as it's called, has one long pocket for bills and two smaller, internal pockets for cards and other junk.
I want one. Sure, it's so expensive you won't be left with much money to keep in it, but on the other hand, it'll probably last you forever.
Uni-Fold wallet [Noah Lambert]
