Freely admitting that I’ve been watching a lot of Danger Man recently, it occurred to me and, more importantly, to Madame, that a ceiling fan with light might be a useful addition to the living room and bedroom.
Something like the one pictured, because it looks kind of 1960s to me, like the house.
Has anyone done this? Any thoughts on stockists?
Not done it myself, but in our office in Turks & Caicos we had a Big Ass Fan:
…which was excellent, though not cheap, and I don;t think they sell them outside the USA, unfortunately.
Well, thanks, @ChrisMann . No, really, thanks. 
Hope you haven’t got a poodle!
Whenever we rent an apartment with a ceiling fan, our caniche jumps up and down barking at it and won’t stop till the thing is switched off. If we pass a shop that has ceiling fans and she spots them, she’ll also go ballistic. However has thankfully never realised that that our heat pumps contain (very useful) fans.
Styling, obviously is a matter of personal taste and fitting in with everything else in the room. However, as a design historian the fan evokes mid-Sixties Victoriana revival/exotica (Carnaby St and rattan peacock chairs etc) rather than the Italian and Californian interiors of that decade.
I think my idea comes from Drake sweating in Malaya rather than anything else. The house was built in 1964. The ceilings are reasonably high, and we have a chequered black and white marble floor (cheap marble, so not pure black or white).
I don’t know what you mean by “Italian and Californian interiors”. I’d be grateful if you’d expand on it.
Having recently been a part of creating recording / rehearsal studios on both sides of the English Channel i can confirm that Big Ass Fans do have European distributors, they were very helpful to us, and some of the range may actually even be found on Amazon (but I may be talking nonsense about that last bit!)
Good news for fan fans!
Happy to - I was referring to what is now often called ‘mid-century modern’ - mainly American (particularly Californian) Italian interior / furniture design that is still very popular today. The husband and wife designers, Charles and Ray Eames exemplify this. At the time embodied an optimism for the future, which is much harder to find today, which may be why these now ‘antique/retro’ designs remain very popular. But as regards your choice of fan, just go with your instincts about what’s right for you and your furniture/taste.
I’m a big ass fan fan unfortunately.
I was reading a thread on Reddit about these just the other day, and lots of people raved about this brand…
https://www.amazon.fr/IKOHS-WINDLIGHT-White-Ventilateur-Plafond/dp/B084Q5W56R
I’ve not tried it personally so don’t know if it’s any good.
That’s a nice bit of styling that would look OK in any modernist or contemporary interior - but is it silent?
So many C20th novels evoked tropical heat topor through clichéd references to the sound of the ceiling fan. But less hassle than a punkhawallah - super-fast explanation here:-
Have a look at this website. They’ve got loads to choose from and their customer service folks are top notch - always answering our questions really promptly.
Anybody know if these are any good (in smaller rooms)? https://www.leroymerlin.fr/produits/ventilateur-de-plafond-avec-eclairage-led-raffan-d55-cm-inspire-beige-nature-92083399.html
We installed Hunter ceiling fans in a style compatible with the 300 year old farmhouse and the motor is silent
I believe however that the original US Hunter fan company has since changed ownership and I’m not sure who owns it now or where the fans are manufactured.
However, I have since learned a little more about aerodynamics 
and that blade width and pitch are rather important. If I had a more modern home, I would go for the Big Ass Fans Haiku. A beautiful marriage of form and function!
Also love these Henley fans. Particularly the gorgeous woods!
The flat straight blades in the picture aren’t particularly efficient or quiet (the two go together to an extent). The tapering and thickness of the blade and the varying pitch from root to tip are very important.
The flat blades of our Hunter are silent but truly not that windy. I tried both clockwise and anti, and frankly found no difference.
Moving on, all hail the Dyson standing unit! 
(Wish I’d known that 4 years ago)
I refuse to buy any of his products. And this is despite my mother working for him many, many years ago.
Reminds me of a friend whose father had been interned at Changi during WW2. He absolutely refused to touch anything from Japan, from airline to wasabi. Made some evenings out quite challenging.
‘Dyson’
Tricky one for me because I like his attitude to innovative design and he funded a building at the RCA, our alma mater. But then there was his Brexit/Singapore hypocrisy. Innovative designers usually have a social conscience and a social dimension to their work, even if that’s more utopian than practical. Whereas Dyson certainly doesn’t correspond to that trope.
