GRANtable

The studio of its designers, Pechet + Robb, gives the client as the City of Vancouver and the park as May and Lorne Brown Park. The studio team is credited as Bill Pechet, Stephanie Robb and Nicolas Osenton, and the table was fabricated by A.E. Concrete Precast Products Ltd. The studio says the project completes the axis of an existing grand stairway, and names two precedents: the large table at Villa Lante in Bagnaia, Italy, and the béton brut concrete tables of Le Corbusier. It also says the work provides a Lilliputian scene for condominium dwellers watching from above, and can range from an empty piece of heroic sculpture to a site for large community picnics.

The Georgia Straight, in a 22 June 2006 article on public artworks worth the walk, described an enormous granite-and-concrete work in an often-overlooked little park. It wrote that the disjunction of scale is wonderfully hallucinogenic, and called it a usable sculpture that could be the scene of an Alice in Wonderland tea party.

The sources read do not state the height of the table or chairs, the park's opening hours or any rules about using the table. The registry status and the studio page are undated, so the work's present condition has not been checked against a recent source.