Small Weights

Light weights never make it to the gym room. They live wherever you are: on the bookshelf, beside the bed, on the coffee table between the remote and the candles, ready for twenty reps during a call or an episode. That’s how most homes end up with a pair of candy-pink neoprene dumbbells in plain view of everyone. Alama makes them worth that spot: a slender grip in ALPI wood, capped at each end in stainless steel, in 1, 2 or 3 kg. ALPI is an Italian wood house whose designers compose each veneer’s grain and colour, so even the lightest piece in the range is designed rather than found. Keep them within reach. That’s where light weights do their work.

• Brand: Alama Studio, Italy
• Weights: 1, 2, 3 kg
• Grip: 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.
• End caps: Stainless steel 304L
• 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
• 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.