Veronica Aktins, who through her philanthropic foundation is funding the restoration of the “Apollo with Lyre” statue at the Uffizi Gallery and who will also be the Grand Benefactor of the 2014 Florentine Weekend, hosted an elegant reception in her stunning, waterfront Palm Beach home to honor the annual visit of Contessa Maria Vittoria Colonna Rimbotti, president of Friends of the Uffizi Gallery and our sister and founding organization in Italy, the Amici degli Uffizi.
Guests at the reception were members, executive and advisory board members and special friends of the organization including: Lisa Marie Browne, Dottore Emanuele Guerra, Diann Scaravilli, Diana Holt, Diana Bell, Daniela Di Lorenzo, Bruce Crawford and Dr. Holly Hadley, Gordon and Laney Lewis, Farah Walters, Frank and Madeline LoRé, Pamela Acheson Myers, Mary Lou Watchman, Mary Francis and Bill Walde, Madelaine Parker, Joe and KK Sullivan, Susan McGregor, George and Carla Mann, Dale Coudert, Herme de Wyman Miro, Edward and Judy Oppel
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