A book celebrates 39 years of work by Stephen Webster, the “jeweler rock” that has brought a breath of youth and turmoil in the world of British jewelery. And not only. The book is called Goldstruck: A Life Shaped by Jewellery (330 pages, 72 € on Amazon, Salma Editions, 2015). An opportunity to look at the many stages of his long career and, above all, to observe the evolution of its production. The long history of Webster in the world of jewelery, starts from a course for aspiring goldsmiths in Kent until you get to the phone calls of Madonna who absolutely wants to buy his pieces. For the singer of Like a Virgin has designed a cocktail ring and later the engagement ring before the wedding with her now ex-husband Guy Ritchie. But he worked also to Kate Moss, Jay-Z, Johnny Depp and Cameron Diaz. Since the nineties his career finally took off. Meanwhile he traveled widely and wrote 140,000 words with his iPad while he was in flight, including some poems. As well as a short story, The Cardigans, the story of something that happened to her sweater during a flight. Federico Graglia
