Bench

Every house has benches: by the front door, at the foot of the bed, along the dining table, each one chosen to look right in its room. Then there’s the training bench: black vinyl, red stitching, a pull-pin, and the power to turn any room it stands in into a gym. Alama designed it the way the other benches were designed, with a polished stainless steel base, a frame in ALPI wood and an upholstered seat 1.3 metres long. It lies flat for pressing and lifts its back upright for seated work, and at 60 kg it stays exactly where you put it. ALPI is an Italian wood house whose designers compose each veneer’s grain and colour. Put the bench under the window; it can share the view.

• Brand: Alama Studio, Italy
• Dimensions: 1325 L × 580 W × 459 H mm flat; 1087 mm H with backrest upright
• Weight: 60 kg
• Base: Stainless steel 304L
• Frame: 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.
• Seat: Upholstered
• Positions: Flat to upright
• 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.