As we celebrate the last few weeks of summer and reflect on the seductively oppressive heat, the humidity which inspires revealing fashions, and the glamour of a tom collins in a sweating highball, on rattan table top, on a porch lined with grand ferns; it is the glorious ceiling fan twisting slowly overhead, the catches our attention.
Finding a tasteful ceiling fan has proven to be one of the most
challenging interior-decorating task we've encountered to date. Our
travels took us back to the first decades of the last century. Back to
the birth of the ceiling fan, when companies like Diehl were designing
simple, elegant, soon-to-be classics.
The ceiling fan design hasn't been updated since it's origin, aside from a few tangents into the world of the ridiculous. Regrettably these accessories of modern comfort have been watered down into the design-addled lock-step of Home Depot-ritz. A crushing middle of the road that has taken over accessible accessories in general. It may be a subtle difference, but it is all in the craft and elegance.
The originals are out there. Finding them isn't easy and they don't come cheap. We turned to Vintage Fans.com who finds and restores turn of the century ceiling fans.
A restored fan like this beautiful number from 1918 will cost approximately $3600.00
The ceiling fan design hasn't been updated since it's origin, aside from a few tangents into the world of the ridiculous. Regrettably these accessories of modern comfort have been watered down into the design-addled lock-step of Home Depot-ritz. A crushing middle of the road that has taken over accessible accessories in general. It may be a subtle difference, but it is all in the craft and elegance.
The originals are out there. Finding them isn't easy and they don't come cheap. We turned to Vintage Fans.com who finds and restores turn of the century ceiling fans.
A restored fan like this beautiful number from 1918 will cost approximately $3600.00
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