Writer and fashion designer Baronne Pauline de Rothschild sits in bed in her bedroom and study at Chateau Mouton near Bordeaux, France. Her four-poster bed is dressed in a white ciel-de-lit and white embroidered pillows. The bed is spread with her text and notes, and more notes fill a basket sitting on a bench by the bed. On the wall, hang Chinese painted panels framed in gilded wooden thatch, designed by Pauline herself. One of the panels is set inside an eighteenth-century English cabinet that holds cowrie shells set in silver and painted shells used originally in a Japanese games. The floor is finished in rose tiles. Pauline wears a green satin dressing gown with her hair hanging straight and long.