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updated: Feb 27, 2013, 2:34 PM

Led by South Coast Fine Art Conservation, working with Fitzpatrick Specialty Painting, restoration of Herbert Bayer's Chromatic gate begins.

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COMMENT 379493	2013-02-27 03:12 PM
4-6 weeks?? Is ONE person doing all the work?!?
COMMENT 379498	2013-02-27 03:14 PM
And the ranting begins....
COMMENT 379507	2013-02-27 03:35 PM
Thanks again to Dan Seibert :-), Mayor Schneider, Santa Barbara View and the Arts Commission. It's ours, like it or hate it, but don't ever let it deteriorate again!
COMMENT 379513	2013-02-27 03:50 PM
$100 a square foot is such a ridiculous price to pay. More than 10x what the actual cost is of labor and materials. I don't care where the money came from to pay for this. I want to know who is getting the kickback on this sweet deal?
COMMENT 379553	2013-02-27 04:31 PM
$100/sq ft!! Wow, someone is getting scalped. Cheaper just to sell the thing and be done with it from a community perspective. Any chance of relocating it somewhere else during the process?
ROGER DODGER	2013-02-27 04:42 PM
The Santa Barbara Phew?
COMMENT 379587	2013-02-27 05:16 PM
That is good news - it's nice to see something positive happening.
DANOO7	2013-02-27 06:01 PM
Thanks Sally, let's all enjoy the new look of this great piece of art.
COMMENT 379765	2013-02-28 08:03 AM
Love it or not, the restoration of the Bayer sculpture is a big undertaking. And where did the $100. sq. ft figure come from?
COMMENT 379787	2013-02-28 09:07 AM
With all the DUI's in SB, why can't someone crash into this thing?
COMMENT 379852	2013-02-28 12:49 PM
379765 - Estimating the width of each arch at 7" and knowing that it's 21' high, an easy LxWxH calculation gives you approx. 800 sq ft of surface. At a cost of $80,000 that's $100 per sq ft. Even if the width is as much as 12", that would still be over $62 per sq ft, which is outrageous.
COMMENT 379880	2013-02-28 01:49 PM
Good news! Thanks to the people who spearheaded the project. They are also laying plans for future upkeep. Good news all the way around.
COMMENT 379932	2013-02-28 04:35 PM
I'm with 787. Except they'd rebuild the thing for $300 sq. ft. Just letting it die doesn't seem to be an option.
COMMENT 379944	2013-02-28 05:11 PM
And thank goodness that it isn't an option. I'd be sad to see it go. :) Before I moved here I used to spend a lot of time here in the 90s as an adolescent and teenager and definitely built a subconscious association between the Chromatic Gate and Santa Barbara.
COMMENT 380091	2013-03-01 07:40 AM
It's not just painting, but grinding sanding, etc. if any have lifted a brush you'd know that half the job is prep. Somebody oughta get a tape measure and then check their math.

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