Fitze, a British resident of Indore, remarked on the great amount of time Maharaja Yeshwant spent abroad.

Christie's art director Amin Jaffer takes this to exemplify his turn to the West.

The Maharaja was at a young age at that time, as was Muthesius who was just a couple of years older.

The work outside and inside was done in the late art deco and international style of modern architecture.

[2] The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris had an exhibition in 2019 called "Moderne Maharajah" dedicated to Yashwant Rao Holkar II and Manik Bagh, featuring some of the interior pieces such as the aluminium bed by Louis Sognot and Charlotte Alix.