Guests of the posh Horizon Club located on the top floors have access to a private lounge and swimming pool with an infinity edge that seems to spill over the side of the building.

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Serious buyers cluster hungrily around the gallery directors, eager to nab their favourite pieces (the more experienced of them employ strategic body-blocking techniques: they hold plastic champagne glasses aloft and to one side, taking up more space and threatening to spill upon their competition).

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But his oyster bed, along the north side of Grand Isle, has likely been destroyed by the spill.

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