In the first of our Art Deco Centenary profiles, we look at the Russian-French artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff – better known as Erté – who became credited as "the father of art deco".

Photo by Morio In New York, architects Raymond Hood and Ralph Thomas Walker worked on many of the best-known art deco buildings, while Timothy L Pflueger had an outsized impact on art deco ...