• What to see

    When jeweller Annoushka Ducas asked creative polymath Nathalie Hambro to exhibit in her Chelsea shop, the result was never going to be a run-of-the-mill collaboration.

    Rather than asking Nathalie simply to show her work at the Annoushka shop in Cadogan Gardens, Ducas suggested that Hambro remodel the entire store and retail space - jewellery cases and all.

    And so Nathalie Hambro, whose career of many colours includes being an artist, fashion designer with designs in the permanent collection at the V&A in London and the museum at FIT in NYC, author of five cook books, art consultant for Phillips auction house, opens her show 'Tools' on 4th June.

    "The tools that Nathalie uses are also very similar to the tools used at the jewellers bench," remarks Annoushka. "They evoke this wonderful feeling of craft, that is so often lacking in our modern world, and which I try to celebrate through my own work."

    For regular visitors to the shop - expect a totally new industrial look, heavy on steel - a favourite material of Hambro's - with site specific works and sculptures.

    'Tools' will surely be both an exciting clashing of personal styles alongside a broader meeting of minds.

    'Tools' by Nathalie Hambro at Annoushka from 4th June 2013
    41 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3 2TB
    www.annoushka-jewellery.com

    Annoushka and Nathalie Hambro offered all Vanity Fair A-List members the chance to win one of four pairs of tickets to a private afternoon tea with Annoushka Ducas and Nathalie Hambro on Wednesday 5th June with talks about the exhibition and jewellery collections. And a goodie bag for each person. Don't miss out on future offers, sign up to the A-List.

  • What to do

    As the Chelsea Flower Show celebrates it's centenary next week, I too will be raising a glass to my favourite moment of the season whilst having lunch at the Fortnum & Mason tent.

    Meanwhile if you haven't managed to get tickets for this year's show - Chelsea Fringe ensures masses of floral fantasy to get stuck into.

    Many of the local shops (Space NK, Liz Earle, Anya Hindmarch and Peter Jones to name a few) take part in www.chelseainbloom.com - a fiercely competitive and wildly creative competition judged by RHS judges, to create the most fabulous fresh flower arrangements.

    At Belgraves hotel (www.thompsonhotels.com) you can check in for Bed, Brunch & Botany - which includes cocktail classes on the hotel's open air terrace, which for Chelsea week has been transformed into an edible garden.

    Chelsea mania spreads to St James where at www.dukeshotel.com they'll be serving up a Rose Martini whilst at the www.interncontinental.com in Wesminster it's a flower show inspired tea with chocolate butterflies, violet éclairs and lots of pink Laurent Perrier champagne.

    And budding flower-arrangers should head to Notting Hill's Couverture shop, where dream florists www.scarletandviolet.com have set up for the week and on Thursday 23rd, founder Vic Brotherson will be holding floristry masterclasses (to book your place email linda@couverture.co.uk).

    Back to the Kings Road, where LA Perfumer www.royalapothic.com has been invited by www.anthropologie.com to create a bespoke scent for the store called Antiquarius Petals and to set up an apothecary in their exhibition space. The scent is named after the famous Kings Road building that Anthropologie inhabits, it smells delicious and comes with an elegant atomiser. What a lovely way to start the summer season.

  • What to know

    Rose Uniacke, London's most elegant interior designer, opened her new shop and design studio in Pimlico this week.

    Her original shop (which she opened in 2009) has spread seamlessly into the space next door, and the newly engorged shop is near perfect.

    If my praise sounds oleaginous, then I'm sorry. But in my wildest of home-making dreams, Rose is there, calmly decorating my flat. Frankly I'd even be happy with Uniacke designing a humble cupboard - just so that I could have a little piece of her clean, lean aesthetic about the place.

    The shop is like one clearly constructed sentence that very simply describes her interior design philosophy. Don't scrimp on the bones… So, there are beautifully pared-back floorboards laid at various angles that anchor the rooms in which just a few carefully chosen antiques sit alongside Uniacke's eponymous line of knockout chic sofas, lights and tables. It's like walking into a fruit shop and finding just one, completely perfect and delicious (and expensive) banana.

    Down the curved staircase is where the ever-expanding worker bee design-team can be found grafting away at creating the understated schemes Uniacke is known for. A cool, relaxing aesthetic so welcome amongst a sea of nutty, brash interiors often seen in fancy London houses.

    It's 10/10 from me for Rose Uniacke's new shop. If I could live there, I would.

    Rose Uniacke, 76-82 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8PL
    Tel: 020 7730 7050
    www.roseuniacke.com