At Comerford, we are book-ish people. Concerned about form and content, our beautiful and exciting selections hope to inspire a sense of possibility and daring this summer.
1. Resident Dog + House Cat
By Nicole England + Paul Barbera: $35 + $37, respectively
Like children, pets tend to function as prohibitions for our interior design decisions: no shaggy fabrics, no delicate vessels, no scuffable surfaces. And yet Resident Dog and House Cat, Nicole England's Australian interiors and Paul Barbera's American Northeast ones, make a persuasive case for embracing our pets. Shot candidly, with animals wandering through rooms that were clearly not designed around them, the two books trade anxiety for a sense of possibility – that our house can stand to be lived in.
2. Wild Ocean
By Peter and Beverly Pickford: $65
Wild Ocean is built to overwhelm, 11" × 14", an inch and a half thick, too big to ignore. Over four years the wildlife photographers (and husband-wife duo) Peter and Beverly Pickford worked the coastlines from Antarctica to the Galápagos, and the pictures they came back with amaze us with a sense of desolation and communion with nature.
By Natalie Obradovich: $105
Natalie Obradovich's debut coffee table book is indulgent – 17 trips to Italy across 8 different summers. La dolce vita is sun-drenched, covering Capri, Amalfi, Puglia, Ischia & Liguria, Sicily and Calabria. Obradovich experiences Italy comparable to Goethe: pilgrims enchanted by unbridled joy.
4. Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
By Iris van Herpen, Cloé Pitiot, Tilda Swinton (Foreword by): $80
Science and anatomy germinate into haute couture in Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses. Previously on display at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, van Herpen’s exhibition is currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum until December 2026. This book is an exploration of sixteen years of van Herpen’s lifework across 100 dresses, centering on nine themes: Water and Dreams, Sensory Sea Life, Forces Behind the Forms, Skeletal Embodiment, Growth Systems, Synaesthesia, Mythology of Fear, and New Nature.
By Matt Titone: $75
Surfers are supposed to be a type. The third volume of Surfshacks is a catalogue of exceptions: a house in Paris pressed up against a cemetery, a house in Oxnard given over to UFO art. What these surfers share isn't a look or even a coastline, but a habit of arranging a life around something that can't be scheduled, “humbly, generously, curiously, and deeply alive.”
Edited by Norman Rosenthal: $60
David Hockney is immortal because change kept pace with his art. The Fondation Louis Vuitton released a living retrospective of Hockney’s work in conjunction with their 2025 exhibition of over 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025), covering oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings…) and immersive video installations.
Hockney’s posterity is captured in this volume, acting as a corrective on our assumptions of one of the most popular and remarkable artists of the modern age.
Published by Phaidon: $60
Summer Houses looks past the season's usual associations – warmth, luxury, escape – toward something more experimental. Across beaches and lakes, deserts and forests, it finds houses built for the lives their owners like to try. Flipping through the pages compels readers to use summer as a time of reframing.
