Hemispheres Magazine

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA SHIN

HEAVY METAL
Ultramodern weights take the homely out of home fitness

Unless you have your own gym, work as a personal trainer or are Billy Blanks, there’s only one place for your hand weights — in the dusty shadows behind the front door. (“I use them as a doorstop!” you insist nervously when dinner guests arrive.) There’s a better solution: Danish designer Menu, known for futuristic stainless steel candle holders, jewelry trees and shoehorns, has contrived this set of magnetic weights that curve around each other like a Miró sculpture. Is it a paperweight? Objet d’art? Postmodern flute? Enlighten visitors only if you care to. Now that your dumbbells have come into the light, their cultural weight is in your hands. $100 / www.creativedanes.com

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