From Chantilly to Enghien, automotive elegance deserves more than a snapshot — why collectors choose the bespoke album.
Summer 2026 marks the great return of concours d'élégance in France. From the Domaine de Chantilly to the lawns of Enghien-les-Bains, the finest machinery parades before a knowledgeable public — in a setting where the car meets art, fashion and history.
Vita Luminis will be present throughout the season. These gatherings are not mere outings: they are moments when you measure how much a car can carry — years of aesthetic research, artisan skill and family passion.
Vita Luminis will be present throughout the season. These gatherings are not mere outings: they are moments when you measure how much a car can carry — years of aesthetic research, artisan skill and family passion.
Elegance is not only what you see on a lawn — it is what you choose to pass on.
Chantilly, open-air museum
The long-awaited return of the concours d'élégance at the Domaine de Chantilly turns the park into an ephemeral gallery. Bugatti, Delahaye, classic Ferraris: each model tells an era, a designer, sometimes a line of owners.
At our stand we offer visitors a complementary experience: having their car drawn by one of our artists — watercolour, pencil, ballpoint — or beginning to think about an album that will gather, page by page, the masterpieces of a collection.
At our stand we offer visitors a complementary experience: having their car drawn by one of our artists — watercolour, pencil, ballpoint — or beginning to think about an album that will gather, page by page, the masterpieces of a collection.
An album is leafed through like an exhibition catalogue — with the solemnity of an object meant to be passed on.
Craftsmanship versus the digital instant
Today every smartphone immortalises a Ferrari 250 or a Delage in seconds. Yet collectors who approach us seek something else: a human interpretation, a hand's gesture, a material — leather, laid paper, gilding — that resists digital oblivion.
That is the whole point of Vita Luminis: bringing together book artisans and fine artists to create a coherent object, worthy of a place in a sitting room as exacting as the one where your frames may have met a veto.
That is the whole point of Vita Luminis: bringing together book artisans and fine artists to create a coherent object, worthy of a place in a sitting room as exacting as the one where your frames may have met a veto.
Meet us on the lawns
Whether you are preparing your first concours entry or wish to celebrate years of collecting, a Vita Luminis album can become the illustrated account of your journey — with blank pages still waiting for chapters to come.
See our calendar on the Press & events page, or book a meeting to talk about it now.
See our calendar on the Press & events page, or book a meeting to talk about it now.