Henri Simmen
Henri Simmen, a Flemish-born ceramist, worked as an architect in France before studying pottery with Edmond Lachenal. Simmen established his own studio in Meudon, a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, and there produced salt-glazed stoneware with buff bodies glazed brown with gilded highlights or with crackle glazes and painted details. After travel in the Far East following World War I, he returned to France and continued his work in stoneware, relying for decorative effect on subtly colored glazes sometimes over designs in low relief. His salt-glazed wares usually have geometrical patterns in black and brown highlighted with gold. Simmen's wife, who was Japanese, carved mounts in ivory and other materials for his pots
