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Travel Wallet / Bellroy
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The Travel Wallet is Bellroy's answer to the scramble at the gate: a slim leather bifold sized around a passport that holds everything you present when crossing a border. Inside are a tailored passport pocket, slots for four to ten cards, two note sections so separate currencies stay apart, a hidden compartment for spare cash, and, tucked into the fold, a Micro Pen with refills for the landing card you always fill in queuing. The leather is Bellroy's environmentally certified hide, which softens and patinas with use, and the whole thing is RFID-protected, with an internal slot sized for an AirTag. It suits the frequent traveller who wants their documents consolidated into one considered object, and accepts that a passport-sized wallet is too large for an everyday trouser pocket.
Design intent
- The whole wallet is sized and organised around the passport and the moment you use it: a dedicated passport pocket, two currency sections, RFID shielding and an included pen consolidate everything you present at a gate or border into one slim object, so nothing is loose in a bag when you need it.
- Anticipating specific travel frictions is the design logic: the Micro Pen answers the landing-card queue, the twin note sections keep two currencies separate, and the AirTag slot addresses the particular fear of losing the one item you cannot travel without.
Trade-offs
- Designed around a passport, it is larger than an everyday wallet and does not sit comfortably in a trouser pocket, so it is a travel-specific object carried in a jacket or bag rather than a daily carry.
- The thin leather flap over the hidden cash section can lift and does not secure as firmly as on Bellroy's shorter wallets, and the passport pocket holds only one, so couples and families need one each.
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- 5 Jul 2024
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