Art & Design Inner Calm
Art & Design Inner Calm THE ART OF LIVING WELL Wellness starts at home – and extends across everything we do, from eating and sleeping to exercising and relaxing. Herewith, a guide to the latest items, designers and services to keep your interiors in tune with your body and effortlessly elegant. By Brian Noone and Claudia Whiteus 1 2 7 36 CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
4 3 5 EXERCISE The natural beauty of wood leads the way in these handsome home-workout pieces that strike a harmonious balance between form and function PHOTOS COURTESY THE COMPANIES 6 1 The sleek Hock Rotator 2 jump rope features walnut handles, a leather rope and a precision ball-bearing system, shophock.com 2 Perhaps the most visually appealing exercise bike ever created, the Fuoripista bike is a showpiece item in wood, glass and aluminium, along with an optional interactive tablet, fuoripista.eu 3 A stylistic throwback, the NOHrD Sprintbok is a hardwood-framed manual treadmill that offers a low-impact, maintenancefree experience, entirely at your own pace, nohrd.com 4 As ergonomically designed as they are aesthetically pleasing, the Hock Diskus dumbbells, made from stainless steel and walnut, never need to be hidden away, shophock. com 5 Another wooden beauty from the German firm, the NOHrD WaterGrinder is an essential at-home machine for sailors, but useful for anyone looking for a full upper-body workout, nohrd.com 6 The foldable cherry-wood frame of the Ergatta Rower is easy on the eyes, but it’s the touch-screen tablet and game-based interactive platform that set it apart, with hundreds of workouts and real-time feedback, ergatta.com 7 Taking interactivity to its limit, Vaha (pictured; vaha.com) joins Mirror (mirror.co), Tonal (tonal.com) and the forthcoming Forme Life (formelife.com) as one of the leading life-size workout screens, which put guidance and classes – and even personal trainers – directly in front of you at head-height, allowing you to mimic their movements and receive immediate feedback, before turning back into a simple mirror at the touch of a button CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM 37
