Barbell Weights

Every weight plate you’ve owned has announced itself: black iron or rubber, the kilos printed big enough to read across the room, stacked against a wall nobody looks at. Alama turned the volume down. Each plate is a disc of ALPI wood set in a ring of stainless steel, with the weight engraved small on the face, where you’ll find it when you need it. ALPI is an Italian wood house whose designers compose each veneer’s grain and colour. Load the bar, and a 20 kg plate does what every 20 kg plate does. Lean it against the wall afterwards, and it looks like the reason the wall is there.

• Brand: Alama Studio, Italy
• Weights: 2.5, 5, 10, 20 kg
• Sold as: Pair
• Rim and bore: Stainless steel 304L
• Faces: ALPI wood. ALPI is an Italian wood house whose designers compose the grain, rhythm and colour of each veneer. The surface is designed, not simply selected.
• Marking: Weight engraved on the face
• Steel finish: Satin, Mirror-polished, Mirror-polished Black Gun PVD, Mirror-polished Rose Gold PVD
• Wood finish: Striped White, Wavy Fair Blue, Planted Black, Flamed Kakao, Sottsass Red
• Made in: Italy, to order
• Lead time: 6 to 8 weeks
• Care: Wipe the steel with a soft cloth and a mild cleaner, then dry thoroughly. Clean the wood gently and keep it away from excess moisture. Steel develops fine marks with use, and wood shifts slightly in tone with light. Both are the materials doing what real materials do.

Alama Studio is a design studio outside Turin, founded in 2026 on a simple objection. The equipment we train with is usually too ugly to live with, so it gets sent to the room nobody sees. Alama draws weights, racks and storage the way a furniture studio would: stainless steel, designed wood surfaces, furniture-grade leather. Every material is left visible and every joint is resolved. The function is the one you already know; a 10 kg dumbbell still weighs 10 kg. What changes is that it no longer needs a door to hide behind.