Sanctum duo aim to give L.A. a fresh dose of sexuality

The secretive nightclub run by Damon Lawner and Natacha Merritt puts eroticism front and center, with a mix of theater and fetish culture. In the airy Venice apartment where Damon Lawner and Natacha Merritt are working to escalate the sexuality of L.A. night life, two slobbery chocolate Labradors ambled about with a tennis ball. A couple of actors and designers huddled over a long table, pencil-sketching some stage-blocking ideas for the duo’s upscale fetish party Sanctum . By the stairwe...