From Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman, © 2012 Harper Design

New York's luxe department store, Bergdorf Goodman, turns 111 this year and celebrates its birthday with a new illustrated book, Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf Goodman.  A companion to the documentary film of the same name, it's a delicious collection of  tales and tidbits from the store's fabled history. Thanks to anecdotes from staffers who remember the time Yoko Ono and John Lennon bought seventy fur coats one Christmas Eve or the day Grace Kelly came in, unannounced, to order her wedding invitations, the anthology reads like a storybook in which the protagonists just happen to be a who's who of Hollywood and New York society. We might not all be Bergdorf's shoppers, but with this collection of photographs, drawings, and recollections, everyone can indulge in a bit of the died-and-gone-to-heaven feeling found at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street.