and was a celebration of Modernism and Art Deco design. It occupied nearly 70 acres of central Paris, on both sides of the river Seine, with 20 countries building bespoke pavilions that celebrated ...

In the first of our Art Deco Centenary profiles ... it was Erté who designed its costumes. He died in Paris later that year, aged 97. The top illustration is by Vesa Sammalisto.

The first art-deco building in Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysée, opened in 1913, while the artist Erté had been producing his pioneering art deco illustrations since 1912.

Jacques Ruhlmann produced some of art deco's most extravagant designs. For our Art Deco Centenary series, we profile the ...