Eleanor Ambos is an unlikely tycoon. Since arriving in New York from her native Germany at age 20, she has transformed a modest interior-design business into a small empire, with a renovated factory building in the borough of Queens in New York at its centre. Eleanor Ambos Interiors profiles the singular octogenarian as she approaches her life with humour and maintains a fiery passion for her work, despite advancing age and worsening vision.
An empire built on playing house: how imagination can change your situation
22 June 2015
videoSex and sexuality
From secret crushes to self-acceptance – a joyful chronicle of ‘old lesbian’ stories
29 minutes
videoIllness and disease
For Flo Fox, blindness and paralysis don’t stop a career in street photography
10 minutes
videoInformation and communication
Nellie Bly transformed investigative journalism by bending facts in pursuit of truth
23 minutes
videoLove and friendship
After traumatic childhoods, two sisters dedicate their golden years to fun
15 minutes
videoHistory of technology
Breakthroughs, quackery and strange beauty: the afterlife of outmoded medical devices
5 minutes
videoHome
Can young and old coexist at a feminist co-living residence?
21 minutes
