Camille Solon

The Arnoux family had been well established in the European pottery and ceramic industry for over 300 years, dating back to Toulouse in the late seventeenth century.

[2] In 1887, at the age of ten, Solon enrolled at Cotton College, a Roman Catholic boarding school in a rural part of Staffordshire.

In 1914 Camille emigrated to California and joined his younger brother Albert, who was the pottery director at Arequipa Sanatorium near Fairfax.

The mosaics that cover the walls, ceiling, and pool are made up of one-inch square smalti tiles (glass and fused gold).

He also designed, “The Creation,” an interior mural in the Temple of Religion and Tower of Peace building at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco.

As he aged, Solon suffered from failing eyesight and used a beloved German Shepherd guide dog to aid him.

Solon died in Marin County on 8 January 1960 and was buried at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in San Rafael.