The bedroom of Baroness Pauline de Rothschild (nee Pauline Fairfax Potter), in her Paris apartment on the rue Mechain. It is furnished with 18th century wallpaper in washed light blue and white; a steel-and-brass bed covered in silk taffeta designed by herself; a dressing mirror of Tula metalwork is on the floor; Louis XVI chairs in blue and white. Pauline herself peers through the door, wearing all black.