Modern Art Deco Wall Art Grátis . It took its name, short for arts décoratifs, from the exposition internationale. Art deco styling was most common in architecture, interior design, poster art, furniture, jewellery, textiles, fashion and industrial design, although it was also applied to the visual arts such as painting, and graphics.in architecture, the art deco look signalled something of a return to the symmetry and simplicity of neoclassicism, but without its classical regularity. Whereas art deco is concerned with surface ornament, color and abstractions of natural forms applied as decoration on buildings, streamline moderne is essentially a machine aesthetic focused on mass production, functional efficiency, and a more abstract aesthetic coming from the bauhaus in germany and the "white architecture" of europe: It influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum c...