US film producer Robert Cohen still to sell Balinese villa for $3 million

Hollywood film producer Robert Cohen and wife, Barbara have yet to sell their rural Balinese retreat, Villa Minangkabau for US$3 million.

Created by Irish designer Linda Garland, who has lived in Bali since the 1970s, the style is heavily influenced by the ancient royal residences of the Minang people of Sumatra.

Garland, who was nominated by The Architectural Digest as one of the most influential designers of the past century, produced a meandering three-section domain divided by a stream.

At the centre is a vast open house with 180-degree views and a huge bedroom overlooking the sea and Mount Agung.

There are two separate Minangkabau guest suites plus two Bali-modern villas with a total of six bedrooms and six bathrooms in the complex.

To ensure authenticity of the structures master builders were brought from Sumatra to oversee the project.

The Minangkabau buildings have soaring ceilings made of locally grown grass and the interiors are decorated with a beautiful collection of Indonesian masks and antiques.

The gardens are well established and lush, with privacy maintained by an unsigned dirt road entry.

Villa Minangkabau, which has been listed through Elite Havens, in association with Knight Frank for about two year, is set on 24,790 square metres of the Pantai Jasi coast near Candi Dasa and looks out to Mount Rinjani on Lombok.

Cohen, who studied anthropology at Harvard, is best remembered as The Fast and the Furious director. The house featured in the August 2009 issue of Architectural Digest.

The couple married at the  property in 2006.