After hearing vivid stories of the time his father spent in Kenya, a young Mr. Pritam Singh Main decided to move from India with the hopes of experiencing for himself the magic of Kenya. After a couple of years of work experience in various furniture workshops across the country, he managed to gather enough capital to open up a carpentry workshop of his own in the coastal town of Malindi, Kenya. He started out with a rented out shack that demanded 90 Kenya Shillings a month and from this humble workshop, the raw talent of this dedicated man bore wonderful pieces of furniture that found a place to call home in the high-end tourist hotels at the time.

Skip forward a couple of years and Mr. Pritam Singh Main's legacy would live on.

In 2010, Mr. Satnam Singh Seehra & his wife (youngest daughter of the late Mr. Pritam Singh Main) established Dumont which is a family-owned and run business that began as an interior-fit out and renovation enterprise that primarily focused on the hospitality industry with a select few residential projects. After a few years in the business, we decided to tap into our maternal carpentry roots and fully indulge in our woodworking operations in order to revive our familial passion for wood. Our woodworking department soared higher when seasoned hoteliers Steve and Nicky Fitzgerald found their way to our humble workshop towards the end of 2014. We had an instant connection and the mutual understanding for the need of unique, well-crafted furniture pieces led to the conceptualisation and crafting of bespoke furniture for the world renowned Angama Mara. To this day, we continue to serve any of Angama's woodworking needs they send our way.

Since the genesis of the company, we've countinually tried and found ways to give back to the community in our own way and towards the end of 2018, an opportunity presented itself. We were in the process of completing a restaurant, Kafe Koko, and the main restaurant area needed a unique localised touch. That was when we got the idea to commission a local street wire artist to create beautiful lampshades woven out of galvanised wire for the main restaurant space. During this time, we got to talking with the wire artist and he explained the tough working and living conditions he and his fellow artists would experience. Those conversations inspired us to do something to help and that's when we started up a Social Impact Program called Waya.

At the start of 2021, we began our Zero Waste Campaign which is an internal initiative to reduce the amount of timber waste as a result of our normal production operations. Offcuts that would otherwise be thrown as waste are carefully kept to repurpose them into beautiful pieces so that every last bit of wood is used to its maximum possible potential. We are in a constant flux of development and aim to continue to provide a wide range of products manufactured from the waste timber. The products that marked the genesis of this initiative were a series of table lamps in various shapes and sizes. The range has grown to producing trays, drink coasters, jewellery boxes and more. Proceeds from this initiative are contributing towards the replanting of indigenous trees all over the country to restore our forest cover which has diminished due to the lack of continued sustainable practice.

With an ethos of rigorous prototyping and testing, we strive to create pieces of furniture that achieve both impressive design & functionality and consequently, timelessness. Over the years we have taken every opportunity to learn and adapt to various customer needs and joinery requirements to be able to boast some of the best craftsmanship the country has ever seen. We continue to maintain this work ethic in everything we do, sustaining a constant flux of innovation, which has given us the ability to maintain a consistency in the services we offer and the pieces we produce.