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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.