【明報專訊】AT THE HEIGHT OF her fame in the 1960s, Pauline de Rothschild (1908-1976) was frequently photographed by Vogue and admired by the public as an interior designer of singular taste. She was, however, in possession of another talent that didn't come across in those glossy pictures: she was a very fine writer too. So awed was longtime The New Yorker author Janet Flanner by Rothschild's travel diaries that she mused, ''we writers work all our lives for style and special faculties of expression; (Rothschild) has them as an amateur.''