Freelance design, travel, and culture journalist

Beyond clichés and without losing sight of nuances, I tell stories about lifestyle, design, and my Italian adventures. From Rotterdam to Rome and from ghost towns to buzzing metropoles.

I’m also managing editor at ELLE Decoration NL.

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ELLE Decoration, Design, Sustainability

Out now: ELLE Decoration - Material Futures

ELLE Decoration, Design, Sustainability

Design-led innovations shaping the world of tomorrow – that’s what this special, English-language edition of ELLE Decoration NL is all about.

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Travel

Travel, National Geographic Traveler

Discovering the Italian region that doesn’t exist

Travel, National Geographic Traveler

Molise is Italy’s least famous region and it might just be the last place where you can enjoy the Italy of a bygone era, with breathtaking landscapes, deserted villages, and age-old crafts.

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Some highlights of design fair Object last week. I loved the selection and the location inside a post-industrial gem. And the light & sky at the end of the day 😍

#artrotterdam #artrotterdamweek #artrotterdam2023 #artrotterdamweek2023 #objectrot

Some snapshots from Art Rotterdam last week - but there was so much more amazing work. Great way to get inspired in an otherwise grey and gloomy period of the year - and miraculously, it was even (cold but) sunny that day 🤩

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Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. If you ask me, this gem is worth a visit just for the architecture alone - but of course, the collection itself is amazing as well.

#vanabbe #vanabbemuseum #vanabbemuseumeindhoven #eindhoven #eindhoven_ehv #eindhovendesig

Very happy with these new portraits by @cinziacapparelli_photo ✨ I’m not a big fan of putting myself at the forefront of my work and I have to admit updating my own website hasn’t been my priority at all in the last years (resulting in g

I’m Liza and I’m a freelance journalist living between Italy and the Netherlands. My publications have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, ELLE Decoration, Dwell.com, and many more. On this website, I share a selection of the stories I write.