IF WALLS COULD TALK

Expect the unexpected at The Fife Arms, a maximalist, art-filled hotel in the Scottish Highlands owned by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, of juggernaut gallery Hauser and Wirth

By Victoria Burrows

At The Fife Arms in the village of Braemar in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, you can eat breakfast under a Brueghel or enjoy a pot of tea under a Picasso. This may sound serious-minded, perhaps even staid, but when it comes to the Fife Arms, nothing is quite as you’d expect. The work by Pieter Brueghel The Younger (1564-1636) is in the dining room, where the walls have been painted in multicoloured, abstract, “cubistoid” shapes by Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca. Pablo Picasso’s Femme Assise dans un Fauteuil (Woman Seated in an Armchair) from 1953 is backed by green tartan wallpaper below a ceiling swirling with lines by Chinese artist Zhang Enli, who was inspired by cross-sections of Scottish agate stones. And that’s just the start of the thrillingly…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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