Solon and Schemmel Tile Company

Other projects included tiles for the Orpheum and Junior Orpheum theaters in Los Angeles, the Mark Hopkins Hotel, Central Classroom Building at San Jose State University, Y.M.C.A.

[3] Their tiles were used by Helen Bell Bruton and her sister Margaret Bruton to create the Fleishhacker Zoo (currently San Francisco Zoo) Mother’s House mosaics.

He was employed as the pottery director at Arequipa Sanatorium in Fairfax, a ceramic therapy program for tuberculosis patients, before moving to San Jose and teaching ceramics at the San Jose Normal School.

He was the grandson of Léon Arnoux, art director of Mintons Limited, and son of Marc-Louis-Emmanuel Solon, a French porcelain artist who became well known for his pâte-sur-pâte technique during his tenure at Mintons in Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Camille A. Solon (1877-1960), a muralist and ceramist, worked with architect Julia Morgan doing painting and tile work for the private libraries and indoor pools of William Randolph Hearst's mansions and estates in San Simeon.