Casa Kids

Brooklyn-based designer and architect Roberto Gil was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1990, and worked as an architect for Fox & Fowle and Agrest and Gandelsonas before starting his furniture company in 1992. Gil’s colorful pieces were soon seen in the windows at Barneys New York, FAO Schwarz, and in the museum shops of the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the MoMA. Gil has also designed successful furniture ranges for Offi, Simplicity, Alex Toys, Ameriwood, Crate and Barrel, and Williams-Sonoma. Gil’s influences include Gerit Rietveld, Jean Prouve, Donald Judd, and a delight in everyday objects he learned from his cartoonist father. His designs are marked by an efficient use of materials and intuitive connection systems. His pieces are less designed than constructed, and it is no surprise that he cites sawhorses and scaffolding as inspirations for his own “practical minimalism.”