One of the UK’s top worktop manufacturers, J Rotherham in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, North Yorkshire, teamed up with engineered quartz company Cosentino, who make the antibacterial Silestone worksurfaces, to provide a dramatic green centrepiece display kitchen and white and grey teaching stations for the new Cooking School at Dean Clough in Halifax. The school was opened this month (January) by celebrity chef James Martin.

The green centrepiece to the 250m² teaching area, which will be used regularly by the principal chef tutor, Matthew Benson-Smith, and visiting celebrity chefs, uses the colour called ‘Fun’ from Silestone’s Life range.

Anna Buckley, sales and marketing director at J Rotherham, said: “We were really pleased to work on a bespoke project of this nature. The curved and complex design of the cooking school’s kitchens required even more attention to detail than usual. Our hard work has really paid off – the finished project looks fantastic and I hope all those who pass through the school will enjoy it for many years to come.”

Profits from the Cooking School at Dean Clough will be donated to the Focus on Food charity. Christophe Gontier, Managing Director of Cosentino UK, said: “The Focus on Food campaign is a brilliant cause and we were pleased to help with providing Silestone for the Cooking School.”

"This is a venture like no other, requiring hygienic, practical yet stunning work surfaces to create the finishing touch to this unique project.”