An upstairs lounge at the display showcases the "green" materials in the cars, like leather cured with a natural tanning agent from olive leaves and eucalyptus wood that comes from sustainable forests.
A master tanner by the name of Andy Rhein wearing a pair of boots made of leather he cured in an ancient way, by burying a skin.
The exhibition starts with a wafting scent of cured leather, as skins from basic to exotic are hung over stands.
The water in the swamp is stained black with tannin from the cypress trees, which is so corrosive that it can cure leather.
Carrageenan is used for curing leather and as an emulsifying and suspending agent in pharmaceuticals, food products, cosmetics, and shoe polishes.
Márai describes each boy's life in terms of smells: "Tibor's house was discreetly scented with lavender, the smell of genteel poverty and sickness, combined with the rather more combative smell of cured leather".
It's a word that mavens use in relation to red wines, and refers to certain types of tannin — the chemical that cures leather, is present in tea, and makes the mouth pucker.
He did manage to give it up for two and a half years, and despite having to smoke in almost every scene of his new film, The Rum Diary – "just fake things, I think they're made of cured leather or something, they're really hideous, you light it and it smells like a tyre burning" – it was only on the journey home that nicotine reclaimed him.
At that time alum was important for medicinal uses, in curing leather and for fixing dyed cloths and the Papal States and Spain maintained monopolies on its production and sale.
The secret cure for salt on leather – cider vinegar.
It's a religious painting on leather that has been cured in dog urine.
