Sydney design icons

1. Sydney Opera House (1958-73)

Jørn Utzon based his design on the segments of an orange. Good thing he didn't use a banana.

2. Florence Broadhurst Wallpaper (1970s)

Her murder remains unsolved but her legacy of flamboyant decoration lives on in fashionable premises worldwide.

Buy it at: Chee Soon and Fitzgerald, 387 Crown St, Surry Hills 2010. (02 9360 1031)  

3. Rose Seidler House (1948)

Wahroonghans thought a space ship had landed when Harry Seidler's white cube arrived - the first modernist building in Australia.

4. Lockheed Lounge (1986)

Marc Newson designed it, Madonna lounged on it, and now it's worth $1.5 million.

5. Akira Isogawa Women's Silk Dress (2005)

Isogawa's unmistakeable east-west fusion fashion finds an apogee in this layered silk organza halter-neck number.

6. ANZAC Memorial (1934)

C Bruce Dellit's Hyde Park monument, the finest art deco structure in Australia, contains a startling central sculpture by Rayner Hoff.

7. Dinosaur Designs Organic Bangle (1992)

The Sydney trio's Stone Age aesthetic is summed up by this bangle that looks as good on your arm as it would on Wilma Flintstone's. 

8. Speedo 2-inch Trunks (1972)

Gloria Smythe got men's swimwear down to a more competitive size in time for the Munich Olympics – and dick togs were born.

9. Jenny Kee Opal Passion Silk Taffeta Outift (1982)

Kee's very 80s love of garish colour and Australian icons is reflected in this bizarre outfit conveying the colours of opal. 

10. Victa Rotary Lawnmower (1952)

Mervyn Victor Richardson's lightweight, cheap, rotary-blade lawnmower cut down the opposition like blades of grass, selling five million over 40 years.