High-end alternative jeweller Stephen Webster has opened a signature store in the London’s equally high-end Burlington Arcade.
After 17 years based in an upstairs studio and salon in nearby Mount Street, Webster, who founded his brand in 1989, told The Standard the move reflects “everything this arcade stands for — craftsmanship, made in England — we’ve got all that… but I do think we bring a bit more of a rock’n’roll vibe.”
Within the store, glass cases feature special collection designs which reflect Webster’s quirky signature style. There are Hammerhead Shark bangles, some featuring rows of individually cut diamonds, priced £118,000.
Another case houses a series of seven rings called The ReBelles, each a limited design inspired by “exceptional women”, including pioneering mathematician Katherine Johnson and LGBTQ+ rights trailblazer Marsha P Johnson.
The ground floor space includes bestselling collections such as Crystal Haze where quartz caps are laid on stones to create an illuminated effect. The highlight is the Fly By Night bat-moth ring in electric blue, priced £5,750.
Downstairs, there’s the martini lounge — a maintained tribute the store’s previous James Bond installation, but completely revamped by Webster. “I got my liquor licence, passed the exam — it’s a licensed premises now,” he notes.
Along with mini martinis (priced £21), there’s its “fastest-growing category”, men’s jewellery, as well as knives with Damascus steel blades and bronze handles shaped to resemble beasts, including a boar, bull and ram (a set of six is priced £29,700).
“If you’ve got everything, you probably don’t have a set like this,” he notes.
Above them is a case of brighter, Pop Art-esque rings named after the “eighth deadly sin… gossip,” which Webster made in collaboration with rapper Machine Gun Kelly. The pair struck up a relationship after Kelly commissioned Webster to make the now infamous ‘Toi et Moi’ ring with which he proposed to Megan Fox in 2022.
“That engagement ring became such a moment. It was talked about everywhere,” Webster recalls. “It kicked off a bit of a revolution, even in America. We thought we’d get a lot more business from it … but people just copied it left and right… [but] imitation is the highest form of flattery.”
