ADELE DONATI

I remember playing with Del in Florida when we were both visiting our Isbill grandparents. She was a few years older and creative even then. She would make a whole Royal family from pipe cleaners and we spent hours thinking up adventures for them.

I met Del and Enrico during the summer of 1985 at their Manhattan residence and at home in Connecticut. I had just arrived from London and the English countryside at Woolbeding in West Sussex. Cathy McKeeney introduced us. I had recently arrived and was lost in the maze of 10 million neighbours. Del guided me through the East side along Fifth Avenue, lunch at Sherry Netherlands, drinks at the Ritz, afternoons at the MOMA and Frick, evenings at Carnegie listening to Ramphal on the flute or...

So sad to hear of Del´s passing. She was my first cousin. Her mother and my father were sister and brother. Due to the fact that we lived a distance from each other, we were not as close as when we were children and spent a lot of time with our grandparents in Florida. The last time I saw Del was when my husband and I visited New York and had a lovely dinner with her and Enrico at their beautiful Fifth Avenue apartment. Del was a beautiful human in every way. Whenever we used to speak on the...