I found this at a Paul Smith store in Tokyo. It's ummmm, well... maybe a coin case? I'm not sure. I'll just call it the thing with the stuff. The point is it's beautifully designed and crafted. I love the closure. You just press it shut, and the friction of the press-fit holds it closed. So clean and simple. The design would only work through the proper manipulation of the materials, which means you couldn't have designed it without a working understanding of how the materials will behave. A rare crafted object, in a world of hyper-cookie-cutter mass production.
Very cool. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it.
TR