This is my great-grandmother’s portrait from the day she met my great-grandfather. He was a photographer-painter and she was an engineer. He admired her all the more for it; back in the 1960s a woman working in industrial design was not common.

This elevator was her own work. Τhe colours and floral tapestry were my grand-poppy’s addition. He used to joke that she made things work, and he made them beautiful.