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ELEGANCE REDEFINED

After living in cities as far and wide as Los Angeles, Paris and New York, the call of the sea became irresistible to entrepreneur Kevin Wendle and he set his sights on a beach estate. ‘I had long admired a stretch of coastline in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and when I stayed at the Ocean

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