Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm

Gardening & Environment Biography & Memoir Australiana

Stuart Rattle’s Musk Farm invites readers into the celebrated Australian designer’s private country garden, a cool-climate Eden he sculpted from scratch near Daylesford. Hardcover first editions with Paul Bangay’s appreciative foreword are prized by collectors of landscape and interior design titles alike.

This 2014 Penguin Random House volume pairs lush photography with Rattle’s own stories, blending memoir, horticulture and local history into an intimate tour of the property he named Musk Farm. Gardeners, decorators and lovers of Australian autobiography will find both inspiration and practical planting insight.

The copy offered is in very good, unread condition—clean, tight and free of marks or smoke odour. Measuring 239 mm tall and weighing just under a kilo, it’s a sturdy presence on any coffee table or design library shelf.

Secure this sought-after gardening biography today while first-print hardbacks remain available; it makes a thoughtful gift for anyone passionate about Australian gardens, landscaping heritage or interior style.