Swiss art power couple Iwan and Mauela Wirth – founders of Hauser & Wirth – will open their first hotel project in the Scottish Highlands, The Fife Arms.

Following two years of intensive restoration, the 19th century Victorian coaching inn will re-open in December with more than 12,000 works of art from international artists including Zhang Enil, Guillermo Kuitca, Subodh Gupta, and Bharti Kher, as well as a wide range of Scottish art.

The 46-bedroom hotel will include a spa with three treatment rooms, and the spa menu will incorporate elements reminiscent of the local flora of Scotland.

Located a few miles from the royal family’s Balmoral estate in the village of Braemar, the hotel is also surrounded by the Cairngorms National Park and near the cottage where Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island.