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Secret Gardens: Designing Private Realms

Matthew Cantwell · Cantilever Press . Foreword by Andrea Quagliola, MORQ

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A 324-page cloth-bound volume, screen printed and bound to gallery standard. Large format, full-bleed photography throughout - made to be handled, gifted, and as considered as the gardens within. Curated by Matthew Cantwell. Written by Peter Salhani. Photography by Nicholas Watt.

Ships October 2026. Pre-order now to secure a copy from the first print run.

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BOOK SUMMARY

Twenty gardens. Twenty stories.

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The most personal gardens are the ones we rarely see — hidden behind walls, perched above cities, tucked into coastal clifftops. Designing Private Realms opens twenty of them.

Curated by Secret Gardens founder and creative director Matthew Cantwell, each is an enclave built through years of collaboration between designer, client, architecture and place. Intimate, considered, and completely its own.

From a rammed-earth courtyard house in Perth to a clifftop garden above the sea, the projects move from hardy coastal grasses to dense, layered planting: landscapes made to be lived in, and to shift with the light, wind and seasons.

Opened by architect Andrea Quagliola of MORQ, Designing Private Realms is the second book from Secret Gardens — and the first from Cantilever Press, a new imprint built to give design books the object they deserve.
SNEAK PEEK

Inside the book

Turn through a sample of the interior — full-bleed garden photography, project drawings and the stories behind each realm.
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Testimonials

Amanda M

"The cloth cover, the weight of it, the photography, all next level. Genuinely stunning gardens."

Rob, H

"Best design book I've bought in years. The production quality is beautiful and every page earns its place."

Madeleine, F

"Dreamy gardens with real substance behind them. That combination is rarer than it should be."

Preya M

"Ended up reading it cover to cover. That says a lot about a design book."

Jasmine, K

"You'd walk past most of these and never know they were there. Getting a look inside felt like a bit of a privilege."
SPECIFICATIONS

The details

A book as considered as the gardens within.

Format

Large-format hardcover

Binding

Clothbound, Screen-Printed

Extent

324 pages

Gardens

20 projects

Curator

Matthew Cantwell

Author

Peter Salhani

Publisher

Cantilever Press

Published

2026

ISBN

978-1-7646394-0-8

RRP

$90.00 AUD

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Publishing at the intersection of art, architecture and the land.

The deepest garden is Country itself. Secret Gardens
acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
as the Traditional Custodians of the Australian lands where
these gardens grow, and honours their unbroken relationship
with the living landscape.