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CANDY’S JEWELERS:
Third-generation family business in the heart of Farmingdale Village
The legacy of Candy’s Jewelers
The family business started in
Farmingdale Music On Main
started more than 100 years
1917, when her grandmother,
festival held on Thursday evenings
ago and, since then, three
Angelina DeVodier, opened
throughout the past summer.
generations of the DeVodier
a pearl-and-bead stringing
family have been building a loyal,
business in lower Manhattan’s
“There’s so many facets” of the
multigenerational customer base
original jewelry district. In 1962,
jewelry business that Candice
– first in Manhattan and now
Angelina’s son, Roger DeVodier,
loves, including identifying
on Long Island, in the heart of
joined her as a jeweler and
stones, she says, noting she
Farmingdale.
expanded the company into a fullservice
learned diamond grading at the
Gemological Institute of America.
This marks the 33rd year in the
jewelry trade shop.
“There’s so many different
jewelry business for owner Candice
In 1977, DeVodier Enterprises
variables that you can point
DeVodier, who specializes in custom
moved to LI, opening a large trade
out and it’s all through Mother
designs, fine jewelry and repairs.
shop in Bellmore, where Candice
Nature. It’s beautiful.”
“I love designing, which is where I
apprenticed under her father. Six
One major key to her success
really shine,” she says, noting she
years later, the business moved to
is “the personal attention” she
creates a lot of custom designs –
a new showroom in Seaford and
devotes to each customer, she
something that she says helps set
opened to the public as Candy’s
said. As a result, generations of
her store apart. “I custom-make
Jewelers.
families “keep coming back to
jewelry and I reinvent jewelry.
Candice became the owner in
me and now their grandkids”
You have your grandfather’s
2005, after her father retired. She
are her customers too, she said,
cufflink or your dad’s outdated
moved the store to Farmingdale
adding: “Because it’s a family
bracelet and you want me to make
in 2016 because of “opportunity
business, I’m so passionate about
something special and new for
– Farmingdale is booming.”
what I do, and I take pride in my
your wife? Fine. I can do it. I’m
She notes the restaurants, shops
work. After all, that’s my name
very good at that.”
and live music including the
on those pieces.”
Candy’s Jewelers is located at 225
Main St., in Farmingdale. They can
be reached at 516-783-1355.