THE DECORATIVE FAIR, Battersea Park

Put an Ikea book shelf in your room and you'll call it furniture. Put an antique, bizarrely unique chest in the same room and hey, it's statement art. We don't tend to go for cool pieces of furniture any more (mostly because of the price) but I remember growing up and playing in my elderly neighbour, Auntie Milly's house. It was a wondrous treasure trove of unique lamps, beautiful cupboards and quirky little things like a weather barometer. It's a way of decorating without planting a painting on your wall.

I went along to this Decorative Fair in Battersea Park (which just so happens to run three times a year) because an advertisement in the Evening Standard offered one free entry. It's with no doubt one for the posh folks. Visitors can bring their dogs along and you'll see them wondering around having minor feuds with other pretty little dogs. But don't let that stop you from going. If you like the pictures below there's more where that came from.

Fair information
Name: The Spring Decorative Arts Fair
When: 23 - 18th April 2013
Where: Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ
Room Count: 1 with around 140 exhibitors
Standard ticket price: £10 each on the door, includes a catalogue which allows free re-entry

JO MALONE'S LIMITED EDITION ART BOTTLE

The bottle wanted in on the vampire trend

Jo Malone's Red Roses perfume has been re-imagined as a pop art collector's piece. The hand decorated, limited edition bottle has been designed by stylist extraordinaire Charlotte Stockdale, who has worked with Karl Lagerfeld and David Bailey.

IT'S BEEN AND GONE

Rain Room by Random International, Courtesy of Barbican Art Gallery, Copyright Felix Clay

Nothing could have made it better. It took the one uncontrollable thing that causes our perfectly groomed hair to frizz (and in some cases ping into awkward kinks), wedding's to be ruined and Monday morning's to be miserable, and turned it into something beautiful.

I don't know if you've seen Singin' in the Rain yet, but when Gene Kelly kicks about in the water I wish I could join him: throwing my umbrella, raising my arms (a bit like Andy in Shawshank Redemption) and embracing mother nature's power. Followed by the hairdryers and floor cleaners as in the stage version of Singin' in the Rain at London's Palace Theatre.

That is why Random International's (a creative digital installation company) Rain Room at the Barbican was so perfect. (The 2,000 litres of rain fell everywhere in the room except for the spot you're standing on.) 77, 000 people and perfectly-dry-spots later the room closed yesterday night. In five months, it's become the most popular attraction in Barbican history, closing at midnight on Saturday to keep up with those rain lovers pouring in (sorry for the pun).

I love digital or you might even call it 'experience' art. I remember V&A's Decode exhibition couldn't function without us interacting in it. They're almost like toys for adults; and anything that makes you feel like you're five again is worth smiling about.