Mission Evolution

Arnold’s mission within this current revival of the Arts & Craft movement is to provide a new lifestyle of forms related to the A & C “mission” style of the past but not a reproduction of that past. His goal is to keep furniture design alive and exciting. Furniture design should change with the needs of the customer and always expand all levels of appreciation. He believes that reproducing a past work is just that – a reproduction of the past, not a revival of the past. He states that “he can only be a part of the revival if he expresses himself in his work and reflects his style along with the past style.” After all these thirty years of making furniture as art, d’Epagnier has not designed interest away from Arts and Crafts or away from using Greene and Greene as the foundation for his designs. He has desired to be creative within its many philosophical, economical, minimalist, and natural parameters. He continually desires to make Arts and Crafts move in excitement. Arnold is a furniture artist who is opposed to mere design changes for no reason. He is opposed to designs without a direction implied or a connection to art and desires to direct Arts and Crafts designs toward continuing as a sustaining life style for ideals. This is evolution.