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Heavy
Metal
Ultramodernweights
take the homely
out of home fitness
BY JACQUELINE DETWILER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA SHIN
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 be er 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 / creativedanes.com
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