Kate Egan and Cort Day

Kate Egan and Cort Day fell in love with Philadelphia while living here in 1999-2001, when Kate was earning her MFA at the University of Pennsylvania. They had met at an artists’ and writers’ residency program – she was taking photographs, he was writing poems. After Kate completed her work at UPenn, they moved to New York and then to LA, but with Kate’s family in Philadelphia keeping them up-to-date on all things Philly, the urge to return stayed strong. On a vacation to Calabria, in southern Italy, the idea that became Egan Day took root. Kate had worked for Ted Muehling in New York prior to graduate school, and her time in his design universe proved life-changing, exerting a subtle but profound influence on her choices in art and fashion. When he and a select group of other artists agreed to let Kate and Cort sell their work exclusively in Philadelphia, Egan Day was born.

Our Place

Set on the parlor floor of a civil-war era townhouse not far from Rittenhouse Square, Egan Day captures the look and feel of a relaxed day at the beach—inspired by Kate’s childhood summers in Cape May (where her family still has a home), and Cort’s early life on the Northern California Coast.