Help finding specific type of box fan, please?

May 6, 2018 7:34 AM

This room fan I experienced in France was effective, quiet, and slim. Just what I'm looking for....and having trouble finding. This Polish site seemed to have had it once? The usual search-pects are not bringing up any good contenders. (The Dyson fans are too large and expensive to dissuade me from my French dream fan.) Any pointers?
posted by cocoagirl to Shopping (7 answers total)

Easy enough to find in Europe, and from there I apparently hit the right search term to locate this one. Different shape, same function (rotating louvre isn't listed in the article description, but it is in one of the comments), slightly less cheap.
posted by Stoneshop at 9:18 AM on May 6, 2018

That Celcia model is no longer produced, but you can occasionally find it used. It looks like the English search terms would be either box fan or floor fan.
posted by I claim sanctuary at 9:52 AM on May 6, 2018

Don't forget that (if you're in the USA) that a Euro fan will be 220-240V and will not work properly here without a step up transformer.
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 10:53 AM on May 6, 2018

I bought that exact fan from a Chinese bazaar in Spain last year - I can't remember precisely but it was approximately 20-25 euros; many of the Chinese bazaars (across multiple European countries) seem to have extremely similar merchandise, so if you can figure out who their supplier is you're set or perhaps you can search AliExpress for it.
posted by vegartanipla at 11:43 AM on May 6, 2018

That Celcia model is no longer produced

Well, maybe not branded as Celcia, but the Tristar I listed is exactly the same except for the colour of the corner with the controls. And most of the hardware chain stores here (.nl) sell them under their own brand, or simply as noname. I'll eat my hat if it's not some Chinese brand that those chains, Tristar and whoever else buy wholesale and have their name put on.
posted by Stoneshop at 11:45 AM on May 6, 2018

Best answer: That's a clone of the box rotator fan that was pretty much in every home (that I saw) in Japan in 1990. Hitachi and Panasonic made 'em back then. This one from Holmes is in a slightly different enclosure, but looks about right.
posted by scruss at 1:42 PM on May 6, 2018

Response by poster: "Rotator fan" and "rotating grill" were the key terms, thank you! I think the aesthetic of the Holmes version is yuck, but the wide sweep of the rotating grill is what I'm searching for.
posted by cocoagirl at 12:17 PM on May 12, 2018