1949 Work began on the Interstate Booking Office at Central Station (now incongruously surrounded by a garish fast food outlet). The artist whom Peter Melocco chose to work on the designs for the project was Guido Zuliani, whose paintings Peter had come across at an exhibition in Spilimbergo the previous year. Immediately he asked the curator who the young artist was, a meeting was arranged and Peter persuaded him to come out to Australia on a two-year contract with Melocco Brothers. Zuliani worked in the design office with Corado Tassie and Giulio Ciurletti, first on the Interstate Booking Office and later on designs for the St Mary’s crypt. Melocco Brothers work in the booking office includes travertine counters, a wall frieze and a marble and terrazzo floor mural. The mural consists of a white marble map of Australia, showing major rail links, over a terrazzo checkerboard pattern and a series of wavy dissecting strips flanked by the emblems of the six states of Australia. The technique employed for the wall frieze involved sand blasting scagliola, which, despite its striking effect, was never used by Melocco Brothers again.