Erté was born Romain de Tirtoff in 1892 to an aristocratic family in St Petersburg, and it quickly became apparent that he had no interest in following almost all of the men in his family into a ...

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".