Today design critic Alexandra Lange files a flattering writeup of the new book Eames + Valastro: Design in the Life of an American Family. In it, historian Daniel Ostroff finds out how owning nine pieces of Eames furniture informed the life of one middle-class American family in the '50s. "Once upon a time these pieces weren't icons, and it is important to be reminded that they could take it," Lange writes. [Design Observer]