Adam comes from an antique and fine art conservation background and has spent  fifteen years working in that capacity for collectors, dealers, museums and other public institutions in the UK and overseas.

In 2016, after meeting Lucinda Chetwode, his now business partner, he took the next step and left his job as a conservator to pursue a career dealing in fine and unusual antiques sourced from across the globe. In June 2017 Adam Calvert Bentley moved into a new 650sq foot showroom-gallery space in Battersea, London, where the stock is viewable by appointment. Having continued to provide conservation and restoration services alongside the antiques business, in 2019 Adam set up a workshop alongside the Battersea showrooms.