“This beautifully shot film opens the doors to the interior worlds of FHK and Daphne Henrion. By capturing their working and domestic circumstances, we are taken into the inner sanctum of two people who both inspired and reflected the key aesthetic trends

The film focuses on the meanings of home for Henrion, a German-Jewish émigré who arrived in London in 1936, having fled Germany for Paris in 1933. He lived at various temporary addresses across London as he established his career as a consultant designer and cemented it through work on wartime propaganda projects for the UK Ministry of Information, before moving to the house in 1947 with his first wife, sculptor Daphne Hardy Henrion (1917-2003) and raising their three children Max, Paul and Emma there. Here the Henrions negotiated work and family life, as he built his career from solo consultant designer to a group design practice, while Daphne juggled domestic responsibilities with her own creative practice, which included work for the Festival of Britain (1951) and new urban development schemes. Designing from Home draws on little-seen original material from Henrion’s archive, held at Brighton Design Archives, as well as interviews with Henrion’s four children, filmed in the extraordinary house which was the family home for almost 80 years.