Maurice Fatio was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 18th, 1897, originating from a prominent family.

He graduated from the Polytechnical School at the University of Zurich and studied under Swiss architect Karl Moser.

[2] In Palm Beach, he began designing harmonious Mediterranean-style houses and eventually branched out into everything from Georgian to contemporary.

In 1929, he married Eleanor Chase (1901-1944), a prominent Palm Beach society girl and novelist, in New York City.

Maurice Fatio died on December 2, 1943, of lung cancer at a Chicago hospital.