Stealing from the dead

摘要

A few feet away, street musicians play jazz standards and tourists browse; but high culture reigns inside the antique shops on Royal Street, in New Orleans. At Harris Antiques, classical music wafts through the air as patrons navigate a maze of marble and wood. Apart from New York, Arthur Harris says, New Orleans has the country's largest high-end antiques market, and the best of it is packed into a few streets in the French Quarter. Royal Street has a reputation to uphold.