the Modern Fan Company in Ashland, Ore., had never owned a fan when he was hired by a ceiling fan company to create a contemporary-looking one in the mid-1980s, he said.
“At that point, ceiling fans had never really been a design object,” said Mr. Rezek, who had spent the previous 15 years designing lighting. “Most of the fans on the market were reproduction Victorian fans, and if a guy had a Mies van der Rohe apartment in Chicago, he probably wasn’t going to put one in there.”
After researching the mechanics of fans and developing a system that allowed the blade to attach directly to the rotor instead of an intermediary arm, he created the Stratos, a sleek model with four brushed aluminum blades. It quickly became popular in both commercial and residential settings.
Portable fans, Mr. Rezek noted, could use a little design help as well.
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