Walker Warner Visits Windy Chien’s Studio

This week, we traveled to artist Windy Chein’s studio in San Francisco’s Mission District to learn about her site-specific sculptural work. What started as a creative exploration of the art of the knot in 2016 has blossomed into a thriving practice where she designs and builds pieces for clients around the world. Examples of her work can be found in multiple Walker Walker projects—most recently in a home on Kauai.

During our visit, Windy shared her artistic path, creative process, and showed us how to tie a traditional doughnut knot. She highlighted how her work blends function and form, celebrating the knot as a perennial storytelling medium. “In every knot, the line will enter, travel around itself, other strands, or objects, then emerge from the knot,” Windy says, “The line charts a journey.”