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Have a seat. Make a necklace. You can at Lindsay Cain's two stand-alone bead shops, Femmegems, in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. Cain, 33, has given up valuable retail floor space to make room for her staff of jewelry designers and her customers to work.
"By keeping the work space visible, it creates customer curiosity, whether it's a designer making a necklace or one of our customers," Cain says.
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