Maurice Fatio: Palm Beach Architect (The American Architect)
The descriptive text is crisp and clear, presenting architectural detail in a way that is atonce knowledgeable, lucid and accessible to novices. Maurice Fatio: Palm Beach Architect is lavishly illustrated with a generous assortment of period photographs and new ones, as well as floor plans rendered especially for this gorgeously produced volume... In presenting 26 representative examples of Mr. Fatio s designs, Mr. Mockler incidentally provides us with a who s who in American societyand culture... Mr. Mockler s descriptive narratives include intriguing biographies and family histories; vivid word portraits of the residences; details about ornamentation, interior design and furnishings; information about additions, renovations and successive including current owners. We learn about where stones were quarried, which local artisans (wrought-iron craftsmen, etc.) made contributions to the architect s vision and how the various residences were situated with respect to the ocean and to Lake Worth. --Philip K. Jason, Florida Weekly --Philip K. Jason, Florida WeeklyTo read this book is to step into another era and into the lives of this country s early 20th- century moguls and tastemakers. Mockler s research is fastidious, his eye astute (and the bibliography is a savory reading list for a long, luscious winter). His descriptions offer plenty of architectural analysis and, even better, a good guided tour, house by house. --Miami Herald, December 12, 2010(Fatio)... put an elegant and enduring stamp on the town, and his rich body of work, now chronicled in MAURICE FATIO: PALM BEACH ARCHITECT, is finally getting its due. (Fatio's) houses were so well known during his lifetime that composer-lyricist Cole Porter was inspired to write brightly in the late 1930s: I want to live on Maurice Fatio's patio... --Veranda, September 2010