Encounter an ancient art recognise it by its scent metropolitan rhythms speed lights and sounds but wandering among the narrow streets of the old quarter everything becomes more calm and collected travelling to milan one happens to encounter secluded and quiet spaces laboratories where for centuries the art of cabinetmaking has been cultivated at its highest levels you first notice it in the scent of beeswax with which the cabinetmaker caresses the wood until it gleams in the subtle and