Barbara Lazaroff in the Press — Magazines
Barbara Lazaroff is primarily known for conception and execution of singularly unique restaurants.
Her innovative concepts and designs have received critical acclaim.
Her projects and business acumen have been featured in many magazines and books.
The have been many articles about Barbara over the years.
Here are a few going back as far as 1990 that we’ve had the opportunity to scan and some more we’ve listed for you to get an idea.
Boutique Design
Heros and Mavericks
Barbara Lazaroff is the Glamazon Giver
June 2018
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Modern Luxury’s Angeleno magazine,
Icons of Beverly Hills
April 2017
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Boutique Design:
BD West Expo Review
April 2017
2 pages
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Angeleno Magazine
Charity & Social Datebook 2017
Barbara Lazaroff
Philanthropist,
Restaurateur and Designer
2007
1 page
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Celeb Life: Passion Without Boundaries
by Claire Sander
Summer 2008
2 pages
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VIVmag
Do-Good Foodies
by Ann Wycoff
November/December 2007
9 pages
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Robb Report for the luxury lifestyle
Ultimate Home Tour – A Portfolio of Extraordinary Spaces — Children’s Room
Greystone mansion
by Mary E. Nichols
April 2007
4 pages
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WEYE column
Goodbye to Hollywood
What made Spago LA’s ultimate hot spot? A look back as the legendary eatery closes its doors.
April 2001
2 pages
“We had this idea of something that would combine money and looks and a casual attitude,” says Lazaroff, who has designed all of Puck’s restaurants. “You know, I always thought of that image of David Geffen with a baseball cap on backward — that’s what we wanted Spago to embody.”
They succeeded. From the day the restaurant opened its doors in January of 1982 (when 21 Rolls-Royces jockeyed for parking spaces along the Strip), Spago was a hit luring everyone from Billy Wilder, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, and Audrey Hepburn to David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Joan Didion and Arnold Schwarzenegger and, shortly thereafter, a mighty mob of paparazzi the likes of which no restaurant in Los Angeles had ever seen.
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Restaurant Business
Perfect Vision – RB honors six leaders whose wisdom, dedication and spirit go above and beyond.
by Victor Wishna
March 15, 2000
3 pages
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Interiors magazine
Spago Soars, Spago Beverly Hills
by Michael Webb
July 1998
5 pages
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LUXE: The Art of Luxury Marketing
Barbara Lazaroff Visceral Reality
by Suzy Gershman
1998
3 pages
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New Yorker magazine
Puck’s Peak
1997
3 pages
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Town & Country magazine
On the Town
The Spirit of City Living
Spago’s New Space
August 1997
1 page
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W Magazine
W At Table
Spago Reborn – Wolfgang’s Garden
April 1997
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Food Arts magazine
Kitchen Spy – Pacific Overtures
6 page article
May 1997
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Chain Leader magazine
Winning the Chain Restaurant Game
PUCK
A brand to reckon with
November 1996
2 pages
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People Weekly magazine
Special Romane Issue
The 10 Most Romantic Couples of 1995
February 13, 1995
3 pages
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Tile and Decorative Surfaces magazine
The Business Magazine for the Tile Industry
An American Designs with Italian Ceramic Tile
November 1994
2 pages
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Orange Coast magazine
March 1994
ELLE Decor magazine
Barbara Lazaroff’s Shower for 35
1992
2 page
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Market Watch
Market Intelligence on the Wine, Spirits & Beer Business
A Decade After Spago Burst Onto The L.A. Scene, Wolfgang Puck Is
Still Cooking
by Jean T. Barrett
April 1992
7 pages
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Restaurant Hospitality Magazine
Dances with Wolf & Barbara “The Power, The Glory, The Untold Story”
September 1992
Barbara Lazaroff and Wolfgang Puck were featured on the cover in tandem with this feature article.
Restaurant/Hotel Design International The Magazine for the Hospitality Design Team
Granita: Water Music – A lyrical new restaurant celebrates the sea in light, form, and detail
by M.J. Madigan
March 1992
6 pages
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DesignersWest, The Magazine of Interior Design Excellence
Public Spaces
Eureka! Barbara Lazaroff Strikes Neo-Industrial Gold
edited by Carol Soucek King
November 1990
7 pages
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Barbara has also been highlighted in such magazines as: Travel and Leisure, The Carlyle, Metropolitan Home, Wine Spectator, Esquire, GQ, Newsweek, Fortune, Japan Times, Harpers Bazaar, and Vogue (American and European editions).
Restaurant/Hotel Design International
Bits & Pieces
April 1989
This magazine issue featured Barbara Lazaroff’s design of the restaurant “Shane on the Glen” which was located on Beverly Glen just south of Mulholland.
Restaurants & Institutions magazine
March 4, 1987
Barbara Lazaroff and chef Wolfgang Puck were featured on the cover of this issue in which Spago was rated 60 in the top 100.
DesignersWest, Public, Corporate & Residential Spaces
Barbara Lazaroff’s Fellini-esque Backdrop
by Carol Soucek King
Photography by Penny Wolin with Mark Adams
January 1986
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People magazine
Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff Have Cooked Up a Marriage, Not to Mention Two Sizzling Restaurants
by Peggy Brawley
March 26, 1984
Opening paragraphs:
He’s as pleasant and undemanding as bread pudding—soft, mushy and sweet. She’s as tart-tongued and flamboyant as chili sauce—fiery, spicy, outspoken. Not exactly a match made in culinary heaven. “It’s against all the odds,” he says, “but we’re a couple.”
Wolfgang Puck, 34, the mild-mannered celebrity chef and his live-in love, Barbara Lazaroff, 30, a hostess, designer and soon-to-be wife, have sifted together two differing temperaments and talents to create Spago and Chinois, two of L.A.’s hottest restaurants. “Wolfgang was already a great chef,” says L.A. restaurateur Michael McCarty, “but Barbara came along and flipped it all into high gear. She took it down a zany trail.”
This article is online at People.com.
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