Yet Mr. Maltzan may be the only American architect of his stature with significant experience in a far less glamorous field: providing shelter and other accommodations for his city's poor.
He was the son of Charles Merrill, the louche and bullish co-founder of Merrill Lynch, and his second wife, Hellen Ingram, a glamorous, overbearing mother who provided Merrill with a lifetime of "passionate, tragic scenes".
He then read you the opening lines of the article published in the Mail in January 2008: "A champagne party at the Royal Academy provided a glamorous backdrop for BBC business editor Robert Peston and his writer and film-maker wife Sian Busby to celebrate her receiving the all-clear from lung cancer.
Sleek new bar equipment not only eases the host's job but also provides glamorous visuals for guests, putting an extra happy in the New Year.
The celebrity of the man whose hands she died at, the availability of glamorous modelling shots providing sensationalist fodder for tabloids across the world and the high-profile nature of the court case made her, in death, an unwitting global poster girl for domestic violence.
Although far less glamorous, it is indisputably worthwhile provided it is performed in a cost-effective manner.
None of it would have been possible without his glamorous assistant Amina, who provides sterling radio backup and spirits him away afterwards. Et voila!
Women have, of course, been extravagantly admired as prizewinning actors at the Oscars and always been expected to provide the glamorous media faces of the Academy Award ceremony, the red-carpet icons and fashion queens.
It provides a glamorous and rewarding work environment for performers and employees, an excellent return to its owners, and offers entertainment events to remember and frequent.
Many of the children in these portraits wear oversized adult clothing that Hugo provided — an elegant silk wedding gown, a Laura Ashley-style country frock, a glamorous sequined cocktail dress.
