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Located in the historic Scottish village of Braemar amidst the Cairngorms National Park, The Fife Arms was recently named The Sunday Times Hotel of the Year 2019. Reopened by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, the newly restored landmark brings together Scottish heritage, craftsmanship and culture. The hotel is also home to an outstanding collection of masterworks and antiques alongside specially commissioned artworks by contemporary artists including Bharti Kher, Guillermo Kuitca and Zhang Enli that respond to this unique site.
Recently acquired by the Wirth spouses, the most renowned Swiss art dealers, the Fife Arms hotel, a stone's throw from Balmoral, has regained all of its aristocraric luster.
It’s almost a cliché Scotland. A Scotland whose fans of Harry Potter or those nostalgic for Mel Gibson from Braveheart will tell us about. Let's set the scene: rough hillsides, boggy bogs and in the middle, a picturesque village called Braemar on which stands, between the supermarket and the tourist office, a large granite house flanked by Arts and Crafts windows as possible: here the Fife Arms, a harsh hotel establishment that, in the 19th century, loved all of British aristocracy, which, sheepishly, followed as one man the fashions dictated by Queen Victoria, happy owner from 1848 of Balmoral Castle located a few miles away.
You can admire the canvases of Picasso, Richter or Freud that dot the site - treasures of millionaires scattered here and there by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, the overpowered art dealers who now own the hotel. Like them, we will whistle the whiskeys while listening to the rain. A life of gentleman-farmer, above-ground and dreamy, and art galore, that is what we are promised within these walls.
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The Fife Arms, Braemar, Scotland. Photo: Sim Canetty-Clarke. Courtesy The Fife Arms