If one had to choose two colours to represent the husband and wife team behind California's most celebrated restaurant, Spago in downtown Los Angeles, it would definitely be fire engine red for her and cool green for him. Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff are very much opposites which irresistibly attract. Austrian born and raised, Wolfgang is the master chef whose retiring manner belies his extraordinary culinary skills, while Barbara's intuitive design genius sparks with a personality whose vibrancy could have come from nowhere other than New York City.

To an outsider looking in it might be difficult to comprehend how such seemingly different personalities could fuse as successfully as these two have. And not just as a married couple, but as business partners, whose combined concerns span four restaurants, a brewery and a design company; Imaginings Interior Design. What is more astonishing perhaps is the fact that in a city given over to trend and the short life this entails, the names and enterprises of Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff Puck are trendy without risking passe.