Smart ceiling fans have come a long way from the simple fixtures many of us grew up with. Today’s fans do far more than move air. They help shape a room’s mood, add style to the ceiling, and connect to smart home systems. “Our ultimate goal is to add value and create a premium ceiling fan line that remains within reach for end users,” explains Alex Ostrovsky, Executive Director of Business and Product Development for Smart Fans at WAC Group. “The newest Modern Forms smart ceiling fans from WAC Group bring together three key elements: beautiful design, adjustable lighting, and intelligent control. The result is a fan that doesn’t just cool the room. It becomes part of how the space feels and functions every day.”
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New Modern Forms Smart Fans Demonstrate Elegance in Motion
The latest 2026 smart fans feature elevated materials and evolved designs for inspired spaces… A new era of intentional sculptural styles where graceful movement, luxurious materiality, and premium performance are seamlessly integrated. See aerodynamic blade profiles, wrapped wood accents for dimensional texture, Natural Spanish Alabaster, Rippled Injection Molded Acrylic, and Reclaimed K5 Crystal diffusers. A range of rich finishes brings warmth, contrast, and dimensionality. The smart ceiling fans connect to a mobile app or home automation system, allowing you to control fan speed, lighting, and schedules from your phone, remote, or wall control.
Our latest designs reflect this broader trend within the lighting industry toward natural elements and tactile finishes. The Crown ceiling fan elevates luxury fan design with a sculptural alabaster diffuser and integrated, tunable LEDs that deliver both uplight and downlight in perfect symmetry. Light glows through hand-carved stone, producing both decorative presence and ambient glow.
Collections such as Carve introduce natural wood blades in finishes like white oak and honey oak, offering designers a level of customization rarely seen in ceiling fans. With a housing and a trio of blades precisely crafted from natural wood, the Carve smart ceiling fan brings a touch of nature into a space. Modern Forms sets a new design standard with Radiant, a smart ceiling fan that redefines modern comfort through light, air, and artistry. Ambient up-lighting is seamlessly integrated into the design, marking a defining moment in ceiling fan innovation. A soft, architectural glow illuminates the ceiling while a customizable downlight diffuser, available in natural Spanish alabaster, rippled acrylic, or reclaimed crystal, casts gentle radiance below.
High-performance ceiling fans typically produce between 6,000 and 9,000 CFM (cubic feet per minute) of airflow, which helps circulate air efficiently in larger spaces. High-efficiency DC motors provide strong, quiet airflow. Proprietary motor design eliminates traditional sensors that fail or degrade, so your motors stay reliable and efficient for years to come. A dynamic mode that automatically varies fan speed to maximize the neutral pattern of outdoor breezes, creating a more comfortable, lifelike airflow experience.
The Modern Forms Smart Fan Advantage
Traditionally, ceiling fans were designed mainly for cooling. While airflow is still important, modern homeowners expect more. That’s why Modern Forms developed a new series of fans designed to combine air movement, lighting, and smart controls into a seamless system that integrates with the overall room design. The Modern Forms Elite Series is a new generation of fans that integrates advanced controls, tunable LED lighting, and refined architectural design. Rather than simply moving air, these fans are engineered to serve as a functional focal point in the space.
Tunable White Light That Changes with Your Day
One of the most exciting features of the newest Modern Forms fans is tunable white LED lighting. Unlike traditional fixed-temperature LEDs, tunable white technology allows users to adjust color temperature across a broad spectrum, from warm and cozy to bright and energizing.
The light can shift from 2700K warm light to 5000K cool daylight, giving flexibility depending on the time of day or the activity in the room. Warm light is perfect for relaxing evenings or watching TV. Neutral light works well for everyday living areas, and cool light is helpful for cooking, reading, or working.
Some fans even offer a natural lighting mode that automatically changes the light throughout the day to follow the sun’s cycle. Light becomes brighter and cooler during the day, then softer and warmer in the evening, just like natural daylight. This capability reflects a growing industry emphasis on human-centric lighting, where lighting design contributes not only to visibility but also to comfort and well-being.
Ceiling Fans Provide More than Enough Light for a Room
Historically, ceiling fans struggled to produce sufficient light after the industry transitioned away from incandescent lamps. The new Modern Forms Elite Series addresses this challenge by delivering significantly enhanced LED output, delivering the light levels people expect in modern spaces. Fans can now serve not just as accent lighting but, in many cases, as a meaningful contributor to the room’s overall illumination strategy. Many modern ceiling fans include high-output LED lighting designed to provide superior-quality illumination while still delivering efficient airflow. Designed to illuminate as well as cool, these fans provide ample light output, smooth full-range dimming, and 4CCT settings: 2700K, 3000K, 4000K, and 5000 K. The new Elite Series models also offer Tunable White in the MyWAC app and include a 3500K option for 5CCT selectable light.
Luxury Materials Elevate Ceiling Fan Design
The latest Modern Forms fan collections incorporate materials typically associated with decorative lighting and interior architecture. These include Spanish alabaster diffusers, crystal light elements, natural wood blades, and architectural metal finishes.
These materials introduce depth, texture, and visual interest, helping ceiling fans complement a wide range of design styles, from minimal contemporary interiors to warm, layered residential spaces.
Easy Intelligent Control for Modern Spaces
Smart home technology is becoming more common, but it only works if it’s easy to use. Modern Forms fans feature simple controls that make everyday use effortless. The fans can be controlled using a remote control, a wall control, or the MyWAC mobile app. The redesigned wall controls and remotes allow users to independently adjust fan speed, lighting intensity, and color temperature.
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work together to offer flexible, dependable fan control, locally or globally. Use the included Bluetooth remote or wall station for instant in-room responsiveness without Wi-Fi. For cloud-based access, automation scenes, and expanded system features, Elite Series smart fans connect via the MyWAC app, while Select Series smart fans connect via the Modern Forms app.
Control any fan in a space with any combination of Bluetooth remote or wall controls- no complex 30-way or 40-way wiring required. MF smart fans are also integrated with major control platforms. Control one fan individually or many fans as a group. Organize fans by room, floor, or zone, synchronize speed and direction across multiple units, and copy schedules between groups for faster setup.
Easily grant temporary app access so guests or staff can adjust settings or schedules without changing your master configuration.
Use a Smartphone App to Control Ceiling Fans
Integration with the My WAC app creates an expanded layer of control. The app allows the fan and lighting to be adjusted from a smartphone or tablet. You can dim the lights, change the color temperature, or adjust the fan speed without leaving your seat. You can also set automatic schedules so the fan and lights turn on or off at specific times.
Another helpful feature is the new memory-enabled power button, which restores the fan and lighting to their previous settings with a single press, simplifying daily operation. It’s a small detail that makes a big difference in daily convenience.
The MyWAC app also represents a broader strategy by WAC Group to unify its connected products under a single platform.
“MyWAC is where we’re consolidating all of our smart products so customers have one place to control everything,” notes Ostrovsky.
Smart Ceiling Fans Compatible with Home Automation Systems
Modern Forms smart fans are designed to work with many popular smart home platforms. With compatible systems and drivers, they can integrate with home automation platforms such as Control4, Crestron, Lutron, and Nice/Elan using compatible drivers or gateways. This level of interoperability allows fans to be part of a broader whole-home automation strategy, in which lighting, climate, and other devices work together. For example, a morning routine could automatically turn on lights, adjust the fan speed, and start the day with comfortable airflow. For lighting designers and integrators, this flexibility simplifies specification and ensures that products can adapt to a wide range of project requirements.
Performance That Matches Design
Modern Forms continues to prioritize engineering performance alongside aesthetics. While lighting and controls have become more sophisticated, airflow performance remains fundamental to the ceiling fan experience.
Many of the new models deliver over 6,000–9,000 CFM of airflow, ensuring effective air movement even in large spaces. This makes them suitable for spaces like living rooms and great rooms—bedrooms, covered patios, and outdoor seating areas. Whether you want a gentle breeze or stronger airflow on hot days, the fan can adjust to your comfort level.
Ceiling Fans For Outdoor Use
Another advantage of the 2026 fan lineup is versatility. Most Modern Forms models are designed to function in both indoor and outdoor applications. Wet-rated fans operate in fully exposed outdoor environments, while damp-rated fans are designed for covered patios and porches.
Outdoor living spaces are becoming more popular, and fans help keep these areas comfortable year-round while maintaining the same design style inside and out. However, certain design elements, such as uplighting features or carved wood blades, are better suited to interior environments.
Engineering for Stability and Durability
Another innovation introduced in the 2026 product lineup is a patent-pending fan stabilizer designed to improve installation stability and protect surrounding architecture. This accessory helps prevent fan sway and secures the fan during operation, particularly in outdoor or coastal environments. This is especially helpful for outdoor installations where wind can affect the fan. The stabilizer has been tested under conditions equivalent to 85 mph wind speeds, demonstrating its ability to withstand challenging environmental conditions.
Smart Ceiling Fans Become Essential in Modern Homes
The latest generation of ceiling fans shows how far home technology has evolved. What used to be a simple appliance is now a multifunctional design element that improves comfort, lighting, and convenience. By combining smart controls, adaptable lighting, premium materials, and powerful airflow, Modern Forms fans help create spaces that feel more comfortable, more beautiful, and more connected. In today’s homes, the ceiling fan is no longer just about cooling the room. It’s about enhancing the way we live in it.
