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IF WALLS COULD TALK

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 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 () from 1953 is backed by green tartan wallpaper below a ceiling swirling with lines by Chinese artist Zhang Enli, who

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