Temo Callahan, a designer and a longtime friend, met Mr. Buatta while working at Clarence House, the fabric showroom. “Mario was a delightful, charming, wonderful person,” Mr. Callahan said. Mario loved high drama. “Mario had yellow legal pad pages of his to-dos, folded into quadrants,” Mr. Callahan said. In more recent years, Mr. Buatta was a proud Trump supporter, much to the dismay of his many liberal Democrat friends.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2018 09:56 UTC