They created Swiss design icons: for over 40 years, Susi Berger-Wyss, a graphic designer and Ueli Berger, an artist, designed furniture together. In the 1960s, the couple abandoned the well-trodden paths of modernism and ventured into a world of contrasts between found objects and popular culture, rationality, and sensuality.
Driven by curiosity, they cast a critical eye at the existing and play with symbols from comics or folk art, which lends their designs an exciting ambiguity.
On the occasion of the publication of a comprehensive catalog of their works, the exhibition presents the original furniture, which is housed in the museum’s Design Collection. Besides Kungfu Regal, Robot Kommode, Soft-Chair, or Wolkenlampe, exhibits include original drawings, prototypes, photographs, and advertising material.














![Karel Appel, Le coq furieux [The furious rooster] (detail), 1952. Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Bern](http://media.meer.com/attachments/de322f88933729d2014dc4e021d4a6694046a744/store/fill/330/330/c26a6c5ef5e2ed397d4a2e9bc00ac739c40ba8384f45f9ce1ed85adba600/Karel-Appel-Le-coq-furieux-The-furious-rooster-detail-1952-Courtesy-of-Kunstmuseum-Bern.jpg)

