“I keep getting phone calls from people who want to participate, there are even people who buy a vintage car just to come,” Explain Jean-François Videau, the organizer. Since 2014, the 1st weekend of September, Perigueux Vintage Days plunge the city of Périgueux into the vintage madness.
– Arno Visconti
“A 360 degrees of vintage culture”
The raouts of another time brought up to date it’s trendyreliving this post-World War II period until the 1970s is very easy to explain.
“What were we going through at that time? We were coming out of very painful things and we needed to laugh, to sing, to discuss, to go party, to dress on its 31… people today also need it. With the Vintage Days we bring them smiles and well-being. We make two days of complete happiness, and our audience ranges from 7 to 77 years old” . During the last edition it was even larger: the youngest of the festival-goers was 8 months old and the oldest 97 years old.
Redecorate, fall for vintage chic
The Périgueux Vintage Days are also good opportunities: you can find what you need to redecorate (furniture, lighting, small decorative objects), with recovery in particular – that too is very trendy-.
You can also fall for vintage chic : with second-hand spaces with period pieces. Warning, vintage does not mean old rags with holes.
A time machine
Musical entertainment where we play the music of these times, we dance there, we dance there, and we even take the pace. Festival-goers who don’t hesitate to put themselves back in the costume of a pin-up.
Discover cars, motorcycles and tractors of yesteryear
To complete all its plural exhibitions, to really believe in it, we find cars, motorcycles, and even tractors arise from another space-time. Things that were and definitely aren’t has been. This year, novelty : there will be racing cars (of the time, of course).