Dumbbell

Most dumbbells live under the sofa. They arrived in January full of good intentions, they still smell faintly of rubber, and by March they are something you step around. Alama’s founders came from superyachts, where nothing is allowed to look as if it was put away in a hurry, and they drew the dumbbell with the same rule: stainless steel heads softened at every edge, faced and gripped in ALPI wood. ALPI is an Italian wood house whose designers compose each veneer’s grain and colour, so the wood is as deliberate as the steel. Choose the pair for the room, not the cupboard. They are the last dumbbells you will buy, and the first you won’t hide.

• Weights: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 kg
• Heads: Stainless steel 304L, edges softened all round
• Grip and head 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.
• 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
• Sold as: Pair
• Made in: Italy, to order (ask about stocked products)
• Lead time: 4 to 6 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.