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The Fife Arms
Braemar, United Kingdom
The Fife Arms offers a wonderfully eccentric Highland escape.
Once a Victorian coaching inn, the building has been transformed by
Hauser & Wirth with a whimsical medley of wry Victoriana and
Scottish legend. The hotels is so fantastical that it could be
fiction, with features including a self-playing Steinway piano, a
cascading model of neon-glass antlers and bagpipe drones. Admire
the library and art collection – spanning more than 14,000 pieces
and including a Picasso, Lucian Freud and Louise Bourgeois – before
curling up in one of the many reading nooks, disturbed only by the
tinkling of the piano and the swirling waters of the nearby River
Clunie.