Villa Sarasvati comprises a large living pavilion and a two-storey building arranged in an L shape around a 18m swimming pool looking onto rice terraces. The open-plan living pavilion has a formal seating area with doors onto a covered open-sided garden room, a dining area and, across a bar counter, the guest kitchen and second service kitchen behind. In the second pavilion, which is fronted by a covered terrace on both storeys, two ground-floor master suites flank a central ‘art-gallery’ foyer leading to the main entrance. Stairs lead up to the second level where two more guest suites and a family TV room open onto the terrace.

Dea Villas is a very popular event venue, with the flexibility to rent up to four villas and 12 bedrooms across the estate. The charming poolside and shaded garden at Villa Sarasvati and the performance space at the heart of Villa Sati are ideal settings for intimate weddings and other special celebrations, and the villas’ location – amongst the rice terraces of rural Bali, yet only a kilometre from the beach and five kilometres from buzzing Seminyak, is hard to beat.