Furniture made and sold on Etsy, what's about it? Design Addicts opinions ?  

objectworship that sounds like
you are not the biggest fan of shabby chic/ hack designs 😀

There are some fantastic pieces and talented craftsmen on Etsy.
Like all things, you just have to know where to look and what to look for. Surprised by the vitriol from some people here.

My vitriol above
was supposed to just be aimed at copies of copies from the blogosphere, not cool as hell cassette tables. Doing a quick search, there are also NOT SO cool as hell cassette tables, on HAIRPIN LEGS (ha!) on etsy... which would be the copy of the copy concept again.
It is tough, though, to speak in absolutes about these sorts of things, art has flexible definitions and flexible standards of quality... I mean, I think some of the HORRIBLE TAXIDERMY stuff on etsy is pretty amazingly cool, and I bought the Regretsy book when it came out. Perhaps the originator of the cassette coffee table had the creative means to establish the idea but not the woodworking skills to realize it in a truly fine fashion? And then others co-opt the idea and make something wonderful? Co-opting can actually produce innovation sometimes... Like Nick Lowe pop tunes or rap sampling...
There is an apartment complex up the street here that has a big KEEP CALM AND MOVE IN sign in the front, beckoning prospective tenants. THIS sort of TERRIBLE CHEAP CO-OPTING TRENDINESS is something I'd like to disappear.
But then where do you draw the line-

Yes, well, there's a huge world of style
and design out there and i hate some of it. Not all of it! Not even a lot of it. Just some of it. And how I describe the stuff I can't stand could easily be misinterpreted by others who happen to like similar things, or whatever. Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. I'm just opinionated, and dim asked.

Cassette Table, not cool LOL
Probably you haven?t seen those wonderful cassette tattoos 😀
Worth a thread, but I am not going to start it!
You can't blame a hipster for being one 🙂

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I like Hummel figurines, raw chicken, and sledgehammers. You should too.
Yup,
Aunt Mark

Its a huge world of style, I agree on that 100%
but also its personal preference.
Its like looking for a particular designer piece and feeling great satisfaction then finding them someday 😉
Or just going to made.com and spending 2-3K for available ?discounted designer? pieces (made in china) LOL.
Different choices for different people , but as long as people are happy, why care about anything else 😀

Aunt Mark I like Doughnuts with custard 🙂
and growing my own vegetables, but spending my time here is very nice too 🙂

for tktoo with thanks.
I think that I'd like to date Joan.
I think,
Aunt Mark

Hah. Beautiful thread.
I think the icons of MCM design, as opposed to the also-rans, were often the work of architects. I think this fact is essential to understanding of the movement, because of certain traits possessed by architectural as opposed to interior-artist designers. There are lovely exceptions to this "rule," for sure. But the formal rigor, the symmetries, the tailoring, the structuralism of work by the acknowledged masters is what characterizes the best work of the period -- it seems to me.
If the hairpin leg was the work of Mies, or Bertoia, or even the designers of the sling chair, we'd probably feel more kindly toward it, than we would if we believed it to be the invention of a commercial hack.
Here's a metal-legged slat table that I helped revive. My collector friends took the legs off and presented me with a wreck, so we bought some new cedar 1x2 and I built a replacement in my funky little 18th St shop space in the Castro, four years ago. They finished it and replaced the legs, and photographed it thus, in their shop. Perhaps someone will recognize this piece:

muttes to self in a southern accent..
"What the hell do I know about design anyway!?
I like uncarbonated beer from a jug, no colder than the garage floor, with a side of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
Those harpy legs were designed to suck and I'll just have to live with it. FML!"

How about hairpin legs on houses?
http://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2014/05/22/on-the-market-1960s-john-floydd-desi...

I don't think that is a bad c...
I don't think that is a bad chest of drawers, but the hair pin legs ruin it.
There has been some discussion on here about Swanky Abode taking the Craftsman name and copying Adrian Pearsall designs and selling them on Etsy. It caused the Pearsall family to take down the catalogue. Not cool, imho. I'd never buy anything from them because of that.
I want to see furniture in person before I commit. There are so many Etsy/Ebay sellers with a wide variety of experience. 99% of them just got into the business yesterday and think everything is "rare" and "in excellent condition"...because prior to yesterday they hadn't ever seen one and since that's the only piece they've handled, they think it's in great condition!
The pieces aren't cheap. I'm not sure why you wouldn't just hunt down vintage for the price. There are etsy sellers in my town that work with local shops to display their pieces so you have an idea of quality.

Those are some epic hairpins H.moon!
Indeed!

SDR
Its a very interesting point in the context of "traits possessed by architectural as opposed to interior-artist designers" Never thought about it from that point of view, but now totally agree with you!
Also please upload that revived table picture please !