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Post by MattS on Jun 1, 2017 19:41:32 GMT -5
I'm just wondering what was the last ceiling fan to offer cane blades, and approximately what year was it last produced?
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Post by Cole S. on Jun 1, 2017 20:00:36 GMT -5
Depends on where you draw the line. Cane has continued to be available in markets outside of North America, so the answer in that regard could vary immensely. It also depends where you draw the line on cane itself. This current Emerson offering is very cane-like in concept. ceilingfans.emerson.com/shop/en/fan/22-rattan-hand-carved-blades-fan-b102vwa It probably doesn't apply here, but it makes the point that more specific parameters are necessary to even begin breaking this question down.
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Post by MattS on Jun 1, 2017 20:32:13 GMT -5
North America, if I need to be more specific, in the US.
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Post by fancollector12 on Jun 2, 2017 0:29:57 GMT -5
The Hunter Cane Isle and Seville both typically had rattan inserts, and it was recently that both were discontinued.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jun 2, 2017 3:13:38 GMT -5
Although cane bladed fans have gotten a lot less popular since the late 2000's, they are still possible to buy in various parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania and in various finishes. In Europe and America, they are becoming more and more difficult to find especially in the classic polished brass finish. You can still find a few here and there but they will be mostly all white which is not as appealing and the cane will not be very visible. One of the last polished brass cane bladed fan that was sold at a large scale in Canada was the famous SMC five cane bladed fan with three tulip lights sold by Canadian Tire under the Super/Airworks name. The last ones are sold in 2006 for only 35$. After that Canarm continued offering the Tradition and the Tempest/Tempo in white with cane blades till about 2012 or 2013. In the US those would probably be the last cane bladed fans. They are still some cane bladed fans out there but the availability varies a lot by region and most of the few available are all white. Antique brass models are easier to come by but polished brass models have gotten very rare. More recently, in June 2016 I stumbled across this awesome polished brass cane bladed spinner demo at Leroy-Merlin. I saw this older demo still there at that one specific L-M store. All other Leroy-Merlin stores I have been to doesn't have that demo anymore and of course the model can not be bought either in stores nor online so I guess they last sold it in 2015 at the very most. Although I have since bought an older version of this fan from 2006 used in very good condition I would almost like to ask the people in the store if I could buy their older demo.
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Post by MattS on Jun 4, 2017 8:07:21 GMT -5
I was mostly curious about fans available in the US. It seems like cane fell "out of style" after the 80's, but I know they were still offered in the early 90's. I assumed they died off some time in the mid 90's, and were completely gone by the early 2000's. I know they were offered at least more recently in other parts of the world. I remember the thread where Jean got a PB spinner with cane blades that was from 2006. I can't remember now if it came from France or Canada.
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Post by Adam D. on Jun 4, 2017 15:07:01 GMT -5
It was wicker that was in style, and that fell out of style in the early 90s I wanna say..
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jun 4, 2017 16:17:41 GMT -5
I was mostly curious about fans available in the US. It seems like cane fell "out of style" after the 80's, but I know they were still offered in the early 90's. I assumed they died off some time in the mid 90's, and were completely gone by the early 2000's. I know they were offered at least more recently in other parts of the world. I remember the thread where Jean got a PB spinner with cane blades that was from 2006. I can't remember now if it came from France or Canada. Cane bladed fans were still common throughout all the 1990's. By the mid 2000's it was a lot more limited and after the mid 2000's most of the last cane blade fans were all white. Yes that brass spinner is the one I included in the clickable 2006 in the post above. I got in last April, used in good condition, it's a pretty recent acquisition. Of course my plan was to buy a new one from the home center but has we have been discussing, brass and cane fans are becoming very difficult to find in the western world.
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Post by MattS on Jun 4, 2017 16:22:18 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for your responses, I guess cane blades continued on a lot longer than I had originally thought.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jun 4, 2017 16:28:12 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for your responses, I guess cane blades continued on a lot longer than I had originally thought. The problem is that afterwards they became very limited in styles and finishes available.
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Post by Tais on Jun 4, 2017 23:24:09 GMT -5
Here we have cane bladed fans, but the "cane" is actually plastic, not real cane Thanks everyone for your responses, I guess cane blades continued on a lot longer than I had originally thought. The problem is that afterwards they became very limited in styles and finishes available. Not only limited, but also reduced quality
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jun 4, 2017 23:51:41 GMT -5
Here we have cane bladed fans, but the "cane" is actually plastic, not real cane The problem is that afterwards they became very limited in styles and finishes available. Not only limited, but also reduced quality Oh yes that's another part of the story that I didn't got into.
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Post by Cole S. on Jun 5, 2017 21:56:14 GMT -5
Adam makes a great point, as far as the US goes. The actual decor craze of cane/rattan/wicker in the United States was going out in the early-mid 90s, you'll notice a lot of the high-end brands that set the trends in ceiling fans began cutting cane from their lines in that time period. A lot of the lower-end brands continued to utilize the style since it was still kinda relevant, and then cheap brands kept it going into the 2000s because they're always standing by making sure that something for sure won't make a comeback before they significantly change a product line to fit new trends. Just speaking generally, there are outliers to everything and I'm not trying to insinuate that all 2000s cane blade fans were outdated trash, so nobody come at me.
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Post by fancollector12 on Jun 6, 2017 2:13:08 GMT -5
Yeah, Cole, I know what you mean... when cane started going out of style, the "higher-end" manufacturers didn't want to cut quality... instead of using the older, more durable materials, many "cheaper" manufacturers switched to a cardboard insert in the blades with fake plastic "cane" glued to each blade, which could come loose over time and fall out, as some collectors have witnessed, especially with NIB/NOS stuff that's been sitting in a box for 20+ years, or worse, water damaged and liquidated only for collectors to find them later.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jun 9, 2017 2:10:02 GMT -5
Adam makes a great point, as far as the US goes. The actual decor craze of cane/rattan/wicker in the United States was going out in the early-mid 90s, you'll notice a lot of the high-end brands that set the trends in ceiling fans began cutting cane from their lines in that time period. A lot of the lower-end brands continued to utilize the style since it was still kinda relevant, and then cheap brands kept it going into the 2000s because they're always standing by making sure that something for sure won't make a comeback before they significantly change a product line to fit new trends. Just speaking generally, there are outliers to everything and I'm not trying to insinuate that all 2000s cane blade fans were outdated trash, so nobody come at me. Hehe, well the question was mostly to know about when the last fans with cane were available and not when the style went out of trend. Of course the style went out much earlier than the last cane bladed fans were available. It also mostly for this reason that it recent years most of the cane bladed fans we saw were pretty much all white, this way the cane doesn't show much and these fans could blend in a contemporary decor. Ironically I have seen it done with brass versions too.
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