The New York Times revisits the old Scribner's bookstore on Fifth Avenue, which was designed by Ernest Flagg a century ago. The space is now a Sephora shop but retains the distinctive architectural elements that made it so beautiful. (See a striking slide show here.)
In a related note, the Grolier Club has a free show called "Ray Safford, Rare Bookman," focusing on Scribner's retail chief in the 1910s and '20s. The show has letters from customers, including this from Royal Cortissoz, the Times art critic during the period, about a set of Robert Louis Stevenson's newly published letters: "If you do not send them to me, to round out my little edition of Stevenson, I will haunt you in the shape of a rattlesnake with the voice of a tiger, and I will steadily, for the next 18 years, put spiders in your tea!! So there!!!"