Holiday Gift Guides 2018: Brick + Mortar

Exemplary gifts found in real-life stores

With just a few days left to prepare, shopping for presents online may no longer be an option. For those who need to make the dash to brick-and-mortar stores, we have selected a bunch of gifts that are available at retail outposts all over—from NYC to Nashville, Miami to Minneapolis, SF to Seattle. Chances are there are a couple of these retailers in or near your town. …

Panama Textured-Leather Wallet

Made in Italy, this textured-leather wallet is divided into four compartments so that you can keep various currencies, IDs, tickets, notes and more in their right place. The cheerful sky-blue colorway is contrasted by four different colored zips, and the luxurious cross-grain calf leather will age beautifully. It’s available in eight colorways—including metallic versions.

Benjamin Hubert’s Unhackable, Design-Forward Cryptocurrency Wallet

Anyone with an understanding of cryptocurrency understands the importance of its management and storage. Designer Benjamin Hubert has proposed a design-forward and unhackable “wallet,” in the form of an aluminum wrist accessory much like a faceless watch. Known as TROVE, the app-connected piece stores the currency offline, locked by the wearer’s ECG signature. Thus, it becomes impossible to forget the authentication. It also happens to …