4 Best Art Deco Wallpapers

Art Deco wallpaper puts the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s on your walls. The style took its name from the 1925 Paris exhibition of decorative arts and ruled fashionable design right up to the Second World War. You know its moves even if you've never named them: diamonds, fans, sunbursts, stepped pyramids. Gold and bronze metallics. Deep grounds of forest green, peacock blue, and black. The line work is sleek and modern, yet the overall effect is pure luxury, which is exactly the trick that's kept it loved for a century. You can browse every design in our Art Deco wallpaper collection.

This guide covers what makes a wallpaper Art Deco, the four Deco designs in our collection, where they work in a home, and the questions buyers ask before ordering.

What defines an Art Deco wallpaper

Strict geometry comes first: diamonds, fans, sunbursts, octagons, stepped forms, all in a clean mathematical repeat. The scale runs bold too, with shapes big enough to read across a room instead of melting into texture. Then there's the palette. Deep grounds of green, blue, black, or chartreuse get lifted by metallic and ivory accents. And holding it all together is that Deco balance of sleek line and rich decoration. Precise, but never plain.

The style splits into three camps. Pure geometric Deco uses shapes alone and feels the most architectural. Botanical Deco tucks stylized palms, lotus, and flowers inside a geometric frame, and it's the type you'll see most often in homes. Figural Deco adds streamlined figures, mostly in murals. Match the palette to the mood you want, too. Black-and-gold is theater. Green-and-gold is a library at midnight. Blue-and-bronze is quiet refinement, and chartreuse is the full 1925 commitment.

One warning about scale, though. Deco patterns are built to be read at room distance, so they shine in larger rooms and on feature walls. Paper a whole small room in bold Deco and it can overwhelm. The pattern simply leaves the eye no place to rest.

The 4 best Art Deco wallpapers from the collection

1. Navy Deco Wallpaper

Tall hairpin arches in cream, tan and grey-blue stack up a deep navy ground, outlined by thin gold pinstripes. This is the most straightforwardly Deco thing in the collection: the arch, the stepped repeat and the metallic outline are all lifted straight from the period. The vertical stack makes a low ceiling look taller than it is.

2. Purple Fans Wallpaper

Overlapping scallop fans fill the drop in aubergine, burnt orange, peach, tan and cream, each one ribbed with fine pencil lines. The fan is the other great Deco motif after the arch, and the warm colorway here keeps it from feeling like a museum reproduction. Good behind a bar or in a dining room.

3. Gold Circles Wallpaper

Large metallic gold discs and quarter wedges sit in a blocked field of olive, with pale pink circles, sage triangles and cream shapes filling in around them. The gold is the whole point, catching light as you move past it, and the olive stops it tipping into glitz. Best in a room that gets real daylight.

4. Modern Arches Wallpaper

Vertical bands of navy, cream, grey and black run the full drop, overlaid with rounded arch and capsule shapes and thin copper lines. It is the most graphic option here and the least floral thing you could put on a wall. Suits a hallway or an office where you want structure rather than pattern.

Where Art Deco wallpaper works in your home

Deco belongs in rooms built for evenings and guests. Formal dining rooms, sitting rooms, entry halls. The metallics and deep colors come alive under lamp light, so rooms you use at night show the style at full strength. Powder rooms are a sweet spot too, since the bold pattern turns the smallest, plainest room in the house into a theatrical one.

Be careful with bedrooms and daytime workspaces. Unless the room is already decorated in a 1920s scheme, full Deco can feel too charged for sleep or video calls. A feature wall is the safer first move, and it reads as a deliberate choice in an otherwise quiet room.

Pair the paper with the period's materials: chrome and polished nickel fixtures, black-lacquered or ebonized wood, ivory and cream upholstery, and leather in oxblood, chocolate, or black. Skip heavy Victorian or country pieces; Deco was a rebellion against exactly that. One install note: the strict geometry makes any seam misalignment obvious, so take extra care matching seams, or hire a pro for big rooms. Our How to Hang Wallpaper guide has the full method.

Art Deco wallpaper questions

What defines Art Deco wallpaper?

Bold geometric pattern, diamonds, sunbursts, fans, and stepped pyramids, in deep saturated colors with metallic accents, drawn in sleek modernist lines but richly composed. The style dates from the 1925 Paris exposition and ruled design through the 1930s.

What are popular Art Deco wallpaper patterns?

Pure geometric repeats of fans and sunbursts, botanical patterns with stylized palms and lotus inside geometric frames, figural designs with streamlined figures, and any of these finished with gold, silver, or bronze metallic ink.

What rooms work best for Art Deco wallpaper?

Formal dining rooms, sitting rooms, entry halls, and powder rooms. Rooms used at night show the metallics best. For bedrooms and daytime offices, use a feature wall rather than a full room.

What colors are popular in Art Deco wallpaper?

Deep grounds of forest green, peacock blue, black, deep red, and chartreuse, paired with gold, silver, or bronze metallics and ivory highlights. Black-and-gold is the most theatrical pairing; cream-based Deco is the most flexible.

How can I style Art Deco wallpaper in my home?

Use chrome or nickel fixtures, black-lacquered wood, ivory upholstery, and leather in oxblood or black. Add a period accessory or two, like a chrome lamp or geometric vase. Avoid Victorian and country-house furniture.

Is Art Deco wallpaper still in style in 2026?

Yes. Deco is one of the most consistently popular historical references in residential design, and the current taste for bold pattern and metallic finishes has only strengthened it.

Can I get samples of Art Deco wallpaper before buying?

Yes. Order a sample of any design and tape it to your wall for a few days. Check it in daylight and under lamps at night, since Deco metallics change character with the light.

Where can I buy Art Deco wallpaper online?

You can browse all four designs above, plus related geometric patterns, at William Morris Wallpaper Co.