Sep 17, 2026 · 25 min · 12 segments
In this episode of **The Decisive Moment**, master jeweler **Glenn Spiro** reflects on a life shaped by risk, reinvention, and devotion to craft. He left school at 14, abandoned a budding child-actor…
Glenn SpiroGuest
Alex AssoulineHost
One of your iconic designs that you've made is that stunning butterfly, so Papillon Ring, that you did for Beyonce a few years back.
It has a mechanism that makes the wings move, right? Can you walk me through the process of how you make this metal feel alive?
Do I design a painting? I have two people next to me, so while I scream and shout and they're drawing next to me, I go, yeah, yeah, the more loam, it comes together.
And I can't remember, I gave her $5 or euros or six, but can I borrow it? She goes, well, you can borrow it for seven.
And I just, I took the mechanism, and then I looked at all the people like the big brands without mentioning them, and they're flat.
And you know what I realized? Most big brands, have to make things they have to produce and they have to have things for sale i actually don't have to i can do what i like so everything we make today I make sure it's made how I think it should be.
One of your iconic designs that you've made is that stunning butterfly, so Papillon Ring, that you did for Beyonce a few years back.
It has a mechanism that makes the wings move, right? Can you walk me through the process of how you make this metal feel alive?
Do I design a painting? I have two people next to me, so while I scream and shout and they're drawing next to me, I go, yeah, yeah, the more loam, it comes together.
And I can't remember, I gave her $5 or euros or six, but can I borrow it? She goes, well, you can borrow it for seven.
And I just, I took the mechanism, and then I looked at all the people like the big brands without mentioning them, and they're flat.
And you know what I realized? Most big brands, have to make things they have to produce and they have to have things for sale i actually don't have to i can do what i like so everything we make today I make sure it's made how I think it should be.
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