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A rectangular picnic table seats people in two rows. Everyone faces the person opposite and talks past the person beside them. A hexagonal table seats six around a centre, and everyone can see everyone. That is the entire difference, and it turns out to matter.
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The hexagonal set
Who is buying them
The growth tracks the same sites that are buying loungers and games tables: parks being furnished for people to stay in. A hexagonal table is a group table. Schools take them for outdoor classrooms, where a teacher needs to see six faces. Community parks take them for the family that arrives as a family. Municipalities took them almost not at all in 2019 and are the largest buyer now.
The accessible version
The wheelchair-accessible hexagonal table is the product that made the form practical for public work. It leaves one of the six positions open with clearance underneath, so a chair pulls up to the same table as everyone else rather than to a separate one. Both Yorkson Community Park and the Dawson Creek hospital specified it. Where an accessible hexagonal goes in, the standard one usually goes in beside it.
A word on the trade-off. A hexagonal table takes more floor area than a rectangular one for the same number of seats, and it does not push against a wall. It is a table for the middle of a space, not the edge of one.
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Bayview Hexagonal Wheelchair Accessible Picnic Table
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